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The Need af Helen Phillips
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The Need (udgave 2019)

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Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. HTML:***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION***

"An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers" (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need, which finds a mother of two young children grappling with the dualities of motherhood after confronting a masked intruder in her home, is "like nothing you've ever read before...in a good way" (People).
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She's been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It's what mothers do, she knows.

But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement.

Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion.

In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. "Brilliant" (Entertainment Weekly), "grotesque and lovely" (The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice), and "wildly captivating" (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives and "showcases an extraordinary writer at her electrifying best" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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Titel:The Need
Forfattere:Helen Phillips (Forfatter)
Info:Simon & Schuster (2019), 224 pages
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Hard to follow, well written book that has confusion, laughter and uhhhh.

It grabbed my interest from the beginning but lost me as the story kept on. I get it. But wouldn’t reread it. Little girl is a hoot though. ( )
  mybookloveobsession | Mar 12, 2024 |
2 stars for awesome concept and moments of brilliance. But the execution and the ... story? Not remotely for me. And to be clear, I *am* a mom of a toddler. So I haven’t “forgotten,” I just don’t think this hits it. Not for me anyway. ( )
  avanders | Nov 28, 2023 |
I have no idea what was happening in this book...and it wasn't interesting enough to make my intense confusion worth it. ( )
  Jthierer | Aug 14, 2023 |
great idea, less than riveting execution. There is, however one passage in the book (end of chp 7) that I consider one of the best/scariest moments in written horror: "She relished the unpleasant kiss. She said to Viv, 'Okay, okay, okay- wait, I still don't know where The Why Book is, did you and Erika find it?' She stepped out of the bedroom and walked to the bathroom, just a few steps. If she hadn't been passing through the hall at that exact instant, she would have missed it: the lid of the coffee-table-toy-chest lifting up a centimeter and then immediately, gently, sinking back down."

The pacing of the story up to this exact point is stellar; you truly feel lulled into a sense of casual curiosity which makes the first appearance of "the intruder" all the more terrifying. Unfortunately, while the story seems to hit its stride in the following few chapters, it slowly slopes off and becomes more of a sci-fi meets Single White Female (1992) meditation on the pressures of mother/adult/womanhood which, while I totally respect, isn't really my bag. ( )
  inthenavey | Jul 6, 2023 |
Motherhood is even more terrifying than I thought, but this book failed to keep things interesting the whole way through. Might have worked better as a short story for me. ( )
  BibliophageOnCoffee | Aug 12, 2022 |
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Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. HTML:***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION***

"An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers" (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need, which finds a mother of two young children grappling with the dualities of motherhood after confronting a masked intruder in her home, is "like nothing you've ever read before...in a good way" (People).
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She's been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It's what mothers do, she knows.

But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement.

Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion.

In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. "Brilliant" (Entertainment Weekly), "grotesque and lovely" (The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice), and "wildly captivating" (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives and "showcases an extraordinary writer at her electrifying best" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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