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Product Info • Bestseller by New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. • One of the Most Significant Books of 2020 by NEW YORK TIMES • Voted Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Kirkus, Time, The New York Times Book Review and over 25 more titles! • Choice of The New Yorker magazine (2020). • Winner of awards: NBCC John Leonard Prize, Kirkus Prize, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize and VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Edi is twenty-three years old, she is talented, cynical and witty, she dreams of becoming an artist. But Eddie lives in a squalid apartment with a neighbor and works as a production editor at a publishing house. She begins dating Eric, a man almost twice her age. True, Eric has a wife with whom they decided to try an open relationship. Everything works out perfectly until an open relationship does not cease to suit Eric’s wife, Rebecca, and he disappears. Eddie loses his job, and then his apartment. But thanks to a chance coincidence, Eddie runs into Rebecca, and she invites the girl to stay with them. A new round of unrelated relations begins. How to live in a society for which, no matter how hard you try, you are a second-class person? How to believe in yourself when everyone around you tells you that you are mediocre? What is love? And how to love yourself? «Thirst» is a frank, bright and provocative text, full of irony and dark humor. Annotation Eddie works in a publishing house, and this is not exactly a dream job, because Eddie dreams of becoming an artist. Like Artemisia Gentileschi, like Caravaggio, like Van Gogh. To paint masterpieces drenched in arterial blood. Eddie is young, moderately cynical, moderately ruthless. To the extent unhappy. In the evenings, she paints in oils, trying to put her life on canvas. But in the morning, the colors fade, and she has no choice but to defend herself from the disappointment that overwhelms her. Unexpectedly for herself, she goes headlong into a relationship with an older man — Eric. He is married, but this is a marriage without obligation. His wife Rebecca is absolutely not against their romance. And it should resemble a love triangle, but there is no more room in the world for simple geometric shapes. Now everything is much more complicated, and it seems that today all barriers have been taken down, prejudices have been dropped, taboos have been lifted. But freedom fetters the heart in the same way as compulsion, and it is from this sensation that the caustic and provocative «Thirst» is born. …
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