| The Stranger Game Lib/E Contributor(s): Gadol, Peter (Author), Ross, Rebekkah (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1982543426 ISBN-13: 9781982543426 Publisher: Hanover Square Press OUR PRICE: $44.99 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
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| Publisher Description: A literary suspense novel in which an eerie social game goes viral and spins perilously-and criminally-out of control.Rebecca's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the stranger game, a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and disappearances are reported across the country.Curious about this popular new obsession, and hoping that she might be able to track down Ezra, Rebecca tries the game for herself. She also meets Carey, who is willing to take the game further than she imagined possible. As her relationship with Carey and involvement in the game deepen, she begins to uncover an unsettling subculture that has infiltrated the world around her. In playing the stranger game, what may lead her closer to finding Ezra may take her further and further from the life she once lived.A thought-provoking, haunting novel, The Stranger Game unearths the connections, both imagined and real, that we build with the people around us in the physical and digital world, and where the boundaries blur between them. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gadol, Peter: - Peter Gadol's six novels include Silver Lake, Light at Dusk, and The Long Rain. His work has appeared in journals such as Tin House, StoryQuarterly, Story, Bloom, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A former NEA Fellow, Gadol lives in Los Angeles, where he is chair of MFA Writing at Otis College of Art and Design. Ross, Rebekkah: -Rebekkah Ross is an actor, singer, writer, producer, and Earphones Award-winning narrator. She is a founding partner and artistic director of SparkPlug Productions, a non-profit multimedia production company. She is also a company member of Food for Thought Productions and has starred as Vanessa Fitzgerald in Handsome Town, an internet sitcom. |