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Rouge : a novel / Mona Awad. - New York : Marysue Rucci Books, 2023. - [8], 372, [1] strona ; 24 cm.

Author

Awad Mona (1978- ). Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura kanadyjska

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Atrakcyjność fizyczna Branża beauty Matki i córki Ośrodki odnowy biologicznej Piękno Przemysł kosmetyczny Śmiertelność Tajemnica Kalifornia Południowa (Stany Zjednoczone ; region)

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Książka w języku angielskim. For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother's) obsession with the mirror--and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry--as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

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All's well / Mona Awad. - New York : Marysue Rucci Books / Scribner, 2022. - [10], 358, [16] stron ; 22 cm.

Author

Awad Mona (1978- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura kanadyjska

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Kobieta Nauczyciele akademiccy Warsztaty teatralne Lekozależność Uzależnienie (nałóg) Ból przewlekły Wybory życiowe

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Powieść psychologiczna

Książka w języku angielskim. The story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain. Miranda Fitch`s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she`s on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare`s All`s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised--and cost--her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That`s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda`s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what`s coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that`s kept her from the spotlight is made known.

currently on loan

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

All copies are currently on loan: sygn. 821-3 kan. (1 egz.)