Based On A True Story: A Novel

Name: Based On A True Story: A Novel
Author: Delphine de Vigan
ISBN: 9781632868152

by Delphine de Vigan

The international hit that sold half a million copies in France: a chilling work of fiction--but based on a true story--about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic and the nature of reality. Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015 Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015 Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine's vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as L.…

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"Delphine de Vigan’s Based on a True Story is a powerful novel of suspense that may or may not be based on truth. Like the author, “Delphine” is a middle-aged Parisian author who has written a tell-all memoir. Here, Delphine-the-author is haunted by her success and exhausted, too. When she falls in with an acquaintance named L., who pushes the boundaries of friendship, de Vigan plays with the idea of who tells a story, and how, with epigrams from Stephen King’s Misery to underscore that play. A creepy tale of female friendship gone wrong; vampirism of the emotional kind."

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