by Emma Cline · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784740450
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«The Girls» is the debut novel by Emma Cline, published by Random House UK in hardcover (368 pages, in English).
In the summer of 1969, in California, Evie Boyd, a teenager desperate to be noticed, becomes fascinated by a group of free-spirited girls living on a ranch. Along with Russell, a charismatic leader, that attraction draws her into the counterculture and into a drift of rumors and violence that will mark her life.
Originally published in 2016, it is Emma Cline's first novel and winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.
For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels, with an interest in 1960s California and the counterculture.
Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist from California. She published her first novel, The Girls, in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her story collection, Daddy, was published in 2020, and her second novel, The Guest, was published in 2023. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and The Paris Review. In 2017, Cline was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, and Forbes named her one of their "30 Under 30 in Media". She is a recipient of the Plimpton Prize and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
