{"product_id":"these-violent-delights-micah-nemerever-9781799941439","title":"These Violent Delights","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn O Magazine.com LGBTQ Book That Is Changing the Literary Landscape in 2020 - An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut of the Second Half of 2020 - A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year - A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel--a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it's with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate's effortless charm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal--an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can bring forth in us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Micah Nemerever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1799941434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781799941439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.60h x 15.80w x 1.20d","brand":"Micah Nemerever","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44054213198079,"sku":"9781799941439","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa10a618-eccc-4447-bb5d-e0c7ec459171.jpg?v=1685028690","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/these-violent-delights-micah-nemerever-9781799941439","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}