True story : a novel / Kate Reed Petty.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984877680
- Physical Description: 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Terrace Public Library | PET (Text) | 35151001106202 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC PET (Text) | 35146002190098 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Chetwynd Public Library | FIC PET (Text) | 35222001047132 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Creston Public Library | FIC PET (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100070641 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sechelt Public Library | F PETT (Text) | 33260100069534 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF PETTY (Text) | TRL29432 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | PET (Text) | 33923006267169 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 June #1
*Starred Review* Petty's innovative, genre-busting debut opens with a vignette set in Barcelona, in which an unnamed narrator addresses another unnamed character, telling her she's sorry for standing her up. From there, the novel rockets through metafictional sectionsâa script for a horror movie, a first-person narrative, a set of revisions for a college essay, and moreâwhich initially seem disparate but are inevitably connected. In the first substantive segment, a young lacrosse player named Nick Brothers explains what happened to him and his team in 1999. Two boys on Nick's team drove a private school student named Alice Lovett home, and rumors of assault swirled, but no one ever proved what really happened. The event's repercussions ripple out through time, as Petty explores it from various perspectives until revealing a set of shocking truths. Alice gets to tell her side, too, but in a wholly unexpected way. Themes of friendship, abuse, reality, and trauma resonate in this puzzle box of a book, and readers will be unable to put it down until they figure it out. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2020 June #1
In Perry's captivating debut, 30-something ghostwriter Alice Lovett is haunted by what happened at a lacrosse party 16 years earlier in a Baltimore suburb. In 1999, Nick Brothers and his high school lacrosse team are known for their legendary post-championship parties, usually followed by a midnight recap at their favorite Denny's. After one party his senior year, Nick shows up at Denny's with his crush Haley Moreland just in time to catch two of his teammates bragging about what they did with a passed out private school girlâwhom the reader eventually learns is Aliceâin the back of one of their cars. The facts of what happened that night morph as the story spreads through their suburban community, and the consequences will shape Alice, Haley, Nick, and his teammates over the following decades. Perry eschews conventional structure, replacing parts of the narrative with drafts of Alice's college admissions essays, her emails to Haley after an abusive relationship as an adult, and Alice and Haley's teenage screenplays to incendiary effect, and they mix seamlessly with the nimble prose. Though the plot sometimes wanders, Perry's page-turner is as sly and devastating as the nature of truth.
Copyright 2020 Publishers Weekly.Agent: Emily Forland, Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. (Aug.)