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Riverhead
February 2014
On Sale: January 23, 2014
Featuring: Bernard Augustin
320 pages
ISBN: 1594632472
EAN: 9781594632471
Kindle: B00DMCVZNE
Hardcover / e-Book
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In an inspired restaging of Daphne du Maurier’s classic
Rebecca, a young curator finds herself haunted by the
legacy of her predecessor. At the Venice Biennale, an aspiring assistant curator
from the Midwest meets Bernard Augustin, the wealthy,
enigmatic founder of the Nauk, a cutting-edge art museum on
Cape Cod. It’s been two years since the tragic death of the
Nauk’s chief curator, Augustin’s childhood friend and muse,
Alena. When Augustin offers the position to our heroine
(who, like du Maurier’s original, remains nameless) she
dives at the chance—and quickly finds herself well out of
her depth. The Nauk echoes with phantoms of the past—a past
obsessively preserved by the museum’s business manager and
the rest of the staff. Their devotion to the memory of the
charismatic Alena threatens to stifle the new curator’s
efforts to realize her own creative vision, and her every
move mires her more deeply in artistic, erotic, and
emotional entanglements. When new evidence calls into
question the circumstances of Alena’s death, her loyalty,
integrity, and courage are put to the test, and shattering
secrets surface. Stirring and provocative, Alena is the result of a
delicious visitation of one of the most popular novels of
the twentieth century on a brilliant and inventive novelist
of the twenty-first.
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