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Riverhead
February 2014
On Sale: January 23, 2014
Featuring: Bernard Augustin
320 pages
ISBN: 1594632472
EAN: 9781594632471
Kindle: B00DMCVZNE
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In an inspired restaging of Daphne du Maurierโs 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. Itโs been two years since the tragic death of the Naukโs chief curator, Augustinโs childhood friend and muse, Alena. When Augustin offers the position to our heroine (who, like du Maurierโs original, remains nameless) she dives at the chanceโand quickly finds herself well out of her depth. The Nauk echoes with phantoms of the pastโa past obsessively preserved by the museumโs business manager and the rest of the staff. Their devotion to the memory of the charismatic Alena threatens to stifle the new curatorโs 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 Alenaโs 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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