It's the evening after the funeral of their mutual friend - a failed actress - and Eugene and Nicole, an artist-curator couple - are hosting. But this isn't a wake. Instead, it is a dinner party for a rising young actress - who is by now hours late. As the natural wine flows and egos swell, old rivalries, hypocrisies and quiet humiliations simmer beneath the surface. Feeling the familiar trap of this social set she's long tried to flee, our narrator fumes with wicked humour and a scathing eye over the very people who she once, to her shame, so idolised.
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN
- 9781804994566