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Apple Tree Yard

Title: Apple Tree Yard / Louise Doughty.
Author: Doughty, Louise, 1963-
Publication: New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Request in advance	JFE 14-3013	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Description

317 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications. Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful pin-striped suit he wore on their first meeting in the Houses of Parliament, when he put his hand on her elbow, guided her to a deserted and ancient chapel, and began to undress her. As the barrister's voice grows low and sinuous, Yvonne realizes she's lost herself and the life she'd built so carefully to a man who never existed at all. After their first liaison, Yvonne's lover tells her very little about himself, but she comes to suspect his secrecy has an explanation connected with the British government. So thrilled and absorbed is she in her newfound sexual power that she fails to notice the real danger about to blindside her from a seemingly innocuous angle. Then, reeling from an act of violence, Yvonne discovers that her desire for justice and revenge has already been compromised. Everything hinges on one night in a dark little alley called Apple Tree Yard. Suspenseful, erotically charged, and masterfully paced, Louise Doughty's Apple Tree Yard is an intelligent psychological thriller about desire and its consequences by a writer of phenomenal gifts"--
"Gripping literary thriller about a woman who makes one rash choice and ends up on trial for murder"--

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"Originally published in 2013 in slightly different form by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

Call Number

JFE 14-3013

ISBN

LCCN

2013034170

OCLC

2013034170

Author

Doughty, Louise, 1963-

Title

Apple Tree Yard / Louise Doughty.

Publisher

New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Edition

First American edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Research Call Number

JFE 14-3013