Payback
  • Published:
    Sep-2020 (Hardcover)
    Aug-2021 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    352
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A novel of lifelong reckoning between two women by the award-winning, beloved author.

Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi--and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggests Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the girl returns with a disastrous account of having been picked up at the museum by an older man. Agnes's stunned, victim-blaming response will haunt both women for decades. Gordon narrates this tale of #metoo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, with a sharp sense of life's changing tempo, carrying us through Heidi's disappearance and reinvention as Quin, and Agnes's escape into career and family in Italy--until, inevitably, they meet again. A remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds, from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety.
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    •  
    • Aug-2021
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0593082540
    • ISBN13: 9780593082546
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2020
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1524749222
    • ISBN13: 9781524749224
    •  
    • Sep-2020
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1524749230
    • ISBN13: 9781524749231



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