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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2015
On Sale: October 6, 2015
Featuring: Nathaniel; Kezia; VIctor
385 pages
ISBN: 0374124418
EAN: 9780374124410
Kindle: B00V35U1N2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first
novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls "perfectly,
relentlessly funny" Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited for the
extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end
of their twenties, they arrive completely absorbed in their
own lives--Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry
designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel the former literary cool
kid, selling his wares in Hollywood; and the Eeyore-esque
Victor, just fired from a middling search engine. They soon
slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Kezia loves
Nathaniel. Nathaniel loves Nathaniel. In the midst of all this semi-merriment, Victor passes out
in the mother of the groom's bedroom. He wakes to her
jovially slapping him across the face. Instead of a
scolding, she offers Victor a story she's never even told
her son, about a valuable necklace that disappeared during
the Nazi occupation of France. And so a madcap adventure is set into motion, one that leads
Victor, Kezia, and Nathaniel from Miami to New York and L.A.
to Paris and across France, until they converge at the
estate of Guy de Maupassant, author of the classic short
story "The Necklace." Heartfelt, suspenseful, and told with Sloane Crosley's
inimitable spark and wit, The Clasp is a story of
friends struggling to fit together now that their lives
haven't gone as planned, of how to separate the real from
the fake. Such a task might be possible when it comes to
precious stones, but is far more difficult to pull off with
humans.
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