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The Fever

The Fever

by Megan Abbott (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

    $3.25
Synopsis

Her hands flying up, she grabbed her throat, her body jolting to one side.

Then, in one swoop, her desk overturned, clattering to the floor.

And with it Lise. Her head twisting, slamming into the tiles, her bright red face turned up, mouth teeming with froth.

Lise, sighed Mrs. Chalmers, too far in front to see. What is your problem?

The Nashes are a close-knit family. Tom, a popular teacher, is father to the handsome, roguish Eli and his younger sister Deenie, serious and sweet. But their seeming stability is thrown into chaos when two of Deenie's friends become violently ill, and rumours of a dangerous outbreak sweep through the whole community.

As hysteria swells and as more girls succumb, tightly held secrets emerge that threaten to unravel the world Tom has built for his kids, and destroy friendships, families, and the town's fragile idea of security.

The Fever is a chilling story about guilt, family secrets, and the lethal power of desire.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 03 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 1447226321
ISBN 13: 9781447226321
Book Overview: For fans of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Fever is Megan Abbott's dark and thrilling novel about a mysterious illness that is taking hold of a high school.

Media Reviews
With The Fever, Megan Abbott has created a mesmerizing, modern portrait of teenage life today: Brutal crushes, competing allegiances and first-bloom sensuality, all magnified by the rush and crush of technology. The Fever holds true to its title: It's dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable. -- Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL If the phenomena that led to the Salem Witch trials were to revisit the world today, it might very well look like the scenario in Megan Abbott's engrossing, disturbing, panic attack of a novel, The Fever. In a time when suicide and pregnancy pacts can go viral, this story of mass hysteria in a high school is not only completely plausible - it's impossible to put down. -- Jodi Picoult, NYT bestselling author of THE STORYTELLER Fans of Gone Girl will seize upon this dark and thrilling tale about a mysterious illness that sweeps through a small-town high school community, unraveling long-held family secrets along the way. Stylist Right now America's best novelists are women, and Megan Abbott is up there at the top. -- Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series Few writers evoke the politics and paranoias of young adulthood as masterfully as Megan Abbott. She tells her tale with deftness and precision, and it grips from beginning to end. A fabulous achievement. -- Simon Lelic, author of RUPTURE The lives of teenage girls are dangerous, beautiful things in Abbott's stunning seventh novel ... Abbott expertly withholds just enough information to slowly ratchet up the suspense until the reader is as breathless as Deenie at the arrival of each new text message or cryptic phone call and the school vibrates with half-formed theories and speculations ... Nothing should be taken at face value in this jealousy- and hormone-soaked world except that Abbott is certainly our very best guide. Kirkus (starred review) Remember your baffling, insecurity-stricken, traumatic teenage years? Well, add to the flurry of hormones an inexplicable violent illness that sweeps through the school and you find yourself caught in the delicious mystery of Megan Abbott's latest high-school thriller ... The context of a mid-American town and the intricately described background details supply just the right amount of normality to make the drama all the more enticing ... the subtle, yet undeniable, sexual tension was particularly well done ... I wouldn't want to be a teenager again, but it's surprisingly thrilling for just a few sordid hours. Stylist An amazing novel ... dripping with tension and bubbling with burgeoning sexuality -- Doug Johnstone, Books of the Year 2014 Herald A hugely gripping psychological thriller Irish News Megan Abbott is, in my opinion, the best writer of contemporary thrillers working today. Her last two novels, The End of Everything and Dare Me, were pinpoint examinations of the modern teenage girl's mindset, blended with nerve-shredding, nourish plots, creeping tension and deep characterisation. The Fever is even better -- Doug Johnstone Independent on Sunday
Author Bio
Megan Abbott is an award-winning author of noir fiction including Queenpin and Bury Me Deep (nominated for the 2010 Edgar Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize). Her novel The End of Everything was a 2011 Richard and Judy selection and Dare Me was shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger 2012 and was a 2013 Specsavers Crime Thriller Bookclub selection. Dare Me is soon to be a major motion picture. Born in the Detroit area, she now lives in Queens, New York City.