Neon in Daylight
Hermione Hoby
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'What do you get when a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty chronicles the lives of self-absorbed hedonists - The Great Gatsby, Bright Lights, Big City, and now Neon in Daylight. Hermione Hoby held me spellbound' Ann Patchett, author of COMMONWEALTH
'Hoby is so good at unpacking all the strange dynamics at work in sex and desire' Emma Cline, author of THE GIRLS
'The perfect book with which to while away those hot summer nights' Independent
'Expect Gatsby-esque hedonism and lyricism' Evening Standard
'You will be transfixed' The Pool
'Smart, shimmering ... glinting with pocketable images and insights ... A vibrant rush of a novel' Observer
A New York summer so hot the air is turning yellow.
Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the kind of person who is up for it and down for it - and not remotely troubled over how those two semantically opposed phrases could have come to mean the same thing.
In the sweltering city, she encounters Bill, a once-lauded now booze-sodden novelist, and Inez, his teenage daughter who makes extra cash catering to the sexual fantasies of men she has met online - and falls into a complex infatuation with them both.
Read MorePraise for Neon in Daylight
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Hoby is so good at unpacking all the strange dynamics at work in sex and desireShakespearean in its comings and goings and near misses ... an assured debut that revels in its conjuring of sultry excess - GuardianThis book pulses with the sticky heat of summer and sex and power and desire ... a deliriously beautiful tale - NylonHoby's beautifully written story of a complex triangle of relationships plays out in the heat of a New York summer. The perfect book with which to while away those hot summer nights. - IndependentHoby's beautifully written story of a complex triangle of relationships plays out in the heat of a New York summer. The perfect book with which to while away those hot summer nights - IndependentA smart, shimmering study of youthful self-discovery and the power of place, unfurling over the course of a single summer in the city ... the book's prose is impressively precise, glinting with pocketable images and insights .... A vibrant rush of a novel' - ObserverThis book pulses with the sticky heat of summer and sex and power and desire ... a deliriously beautiful tale - NylonA broiling shimmering NYC is the star of this modern coming-of-age novel, which has made huge waves stateside - expect Gatsby-esque hedonism and lyricism - Evening Standard Magazine
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