Tigerlily's orchids : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1439150397
- ISBN: 9781439150399
- ISBN: 1439150346
- ISBN: 9781439150344
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Physical Description:
257 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First Scribner Hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2011.
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Overview: Is it dangerous to know too much about your neighbors? In Tigerlily's Orchids, Diamond Dagger Award-winning Ruth Rendell has written psychologically thrilling novel about the eccentric inhabitants of a London terrace-about the secrets they keep, and what they will do to hide them. When Stuart Font decides to throw a housewarming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building-three flippant young girls, a lonely spinster, a man with a passion for classical history, and a woman determined to drink herself to death. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. He considered inviting a few other friends, but he definitely does not want his girlfriend, Claudia, in attendance, as he would also have to invite her lawyer husband. As it turns out, the party will be one everyone remembers. Living in a townhouse opposite Stuart's building, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman known as Tigerlily. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges infrequently to exert a terrible spell. And Stuart's parents, always worried about their handsome, hopelessly naive, and under motivated son, have even more cause for concern. |
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Subject: | Parties Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Parties Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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- 33 of 33 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
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- 0 current holds with 33 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | F REN (Text) | 33625122736189 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |