by Joyce Maynard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782848764146
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Summer 1979, Northern California. Rachel, thirteen, and her sister Patty, eleven, are preparing to spend their holidays wandering in the mountains as usual. Escaping the supervision of a loving but neurasthenic mother since her divorce, and a father in love with all women, the flamboyant police inspector Torricelli, they hide in the backyards to watch TV through the neighbors' window, invent jokes and games endlessly, dreaming of the unexpected that would spice up their existence. And the unexpected arrives. Nightmarish, a succession of murders of young women, killed in the mountains according to the same modus operandi: the hunt for the Twilight Strangler begins, led by Inspector Torricelli. Thirty years later, Rachel, who has become a famous novelist, recounts this exhausting quest. After fifteen murders, the mountain killer disappeared. One day, however, the two sisters had found themselves face to face with him. Fantasy of hysterical girls, the authorities had declared. Since then, Rachel has made it her mission to find this man. And the outcome, the reader will experience it live, from surprise to surprise. Joyce Maynard has written a beautiful and lyrical love story punctuated by the hits of the seventies: the one that reigns between the father and his daughters, the one that unites the two sisters forever.
Joyce Maynard is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s, while also beginning a career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew on the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted by Gus Van Sant into the film To Die For in 1995. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, in which she describes her relationship with J. D. Salinger.
