Write Yourself Out of a Corner
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints
Alice LaPlante est une auteure primée dont l'œuvre couvre à la fois la fiction et la non-fiction. Son écriture explore le processus complexe de la narration et la psyché humaine, examinant souvent la construction du récit et la nature de la réalité. Par sa prose captivante et son exploration perspicace de ces thèmes, LaPlante invite les lecteurs à considérer les mécanismes plus profonds derrière la création et la perception des histoires.




100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints
Jennifer White can't remember whether she murdered her best friendDr Jennifer White, a once brilliant surgeon, is slowly losing her mind.Amanda, her best friend, is found stabbed to death. Four of her fingers have been expertly removed.Suspicion immediately falls on Jennifer.
“An eerie, tense, and finely written novel…Readers will grip their chairs” (SFGate.com) as they try to unravel this tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind. Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Devastated, she manages to make one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from San Francisco to the seaside town of Half Moon Bay. Jane is inconsolable, and yet, as the months go by, she is able to cobble together some version of a job, of friends, of the possibility of peace. And then, children begin to disappear. And soon, Jane sees her own pain reflected in all the parents in the town. She wonders if she will be able to live through the aching loss, the fear all around her. And as the disappearances continue, she begins to see that what her neighbors are wondering is if it is Jane herself who has unleashed the horror of loss. Alice LaPlante’s “well-crafted novel of psychological suspense” is a chilling story about a mother haunted by her past, a “brooding suspense novel…dark, starkly beautiful…LaPlante uses a seductively dangerous landscape to mirror her heroine’s inner life” (Kirkus Reviews).
Als der bekannte plastische Chirurg Dr. John Taylor tot in einem Hotelzimmer in seiner Heimatstadt aufgefunden wird, ahnt noch niemand dessen Geheimnis. Erst langsam kommt heraus, dass der Arzt nicht nur eine, sondern gleich drei Ehefrauen hatte. Keine wusste von der anderen. Jede wohnte in einer anderen Stadt. Als diese drei Frauen nun aufeinandertreffen, verdächtigt jede die andere. Doch welche Frau könnte etwas mit dem Mord zu tun haben, oder hatte Dr. John Taylor noch ein ganz anderes Geheimnis?