“Kate Reed Petty is such a gifted writer that she can make even a college application essay feel utterly heartbreaking. And in True Story, she has given us a riveting and totally innovative novel about the power of lies to shape the truth, a book built like an elaborate jigsaw puzzle whose picture becomes thrillingly clear only after you’ve locked in the very last piece.” —Nathan Hill, author of The Nix/5(). · Petty weaves a poignant, riveting novel about the power of a story and how differently that power can be wielded depending on who is telling it. What is initially so striking about True Story is how easy it is to feel for and even root for Nick and his friends. In only a few short pages, Petty gives us intimate access to their sensitive sides, their insecurities and the ways that toxic masculinity 3/4(8). · “Kate Reed Petty is such a gifted writer that she can make even a college application essay feel utterly heartbreaking. And in True Story, she has given us a riveting and totally innovative novel about the power of lies to shape the truth, a book built like an elaborate jigsaw puzzle whose picture becomes thrillingly clear only after you’ve locked in the very last piece.” —Nathan Hill, author of The NixBrand: Penguin Publishing Group.
True Story by Kate Reed Petty My rating: 3 of 5 stars Time taken to read - 2 days Pages - Publisher - Riverrun Source - Review copy Blurb from Goodreads Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them. Miller's experience and others like it reverberate throughout Kate Reed Petty's spellbinding debut novel, "True Story," which focuses on the rippling impact of an alleged assault following. True Story By: Kate Reed Petty Narrated by: Kristen Sieh,Alexander Cendese,Cassandra Campbell.
The UK rivverrun edition of debut novel True Story by Kate Reed Petty features four mini covers playing up different genres, while the US Viking cover features a single image and quote from author. True Story is a genre-defying novel most appropriately described as literary crime and is also Kate Reed Petty’s gripping feminist debut, and I can't help but feel we will be hearing a lot more about her in the future. It follows Alice Lovett, a gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, who makes a living helping other people tell their stories. True Story by Kate Reed Petty Publisher: riverrun Publication Date: August 5th, Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Add to Goodreads Sou.
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