Kit
Book Club Kit : Anxious people (10 copies)
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501160844 (paperback)
- ISBN: 1501160842 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 340 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Washington Square Press / Atria Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Washington Square Press / Atria, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Sweden in 2019 as Folk med ångest."--Title page verso. Includes readers guide. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Swedish into English. |
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| Subject: | Hostages Fiction Married people Fiction Real estate agents Fiction Bank robberies Fiction Sweden Fiction |
| Genre: | novels. Humorous fiction. Black humor. Psychological fiction. Humorous fiction. Novels. Fiction. |
Summary:
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of eight strangers hostage. Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. In short, they are the wrost group of hostages in the world. But as the minutes tick by, they begin to suspect that the criminal mastermind holding them hostage might be more in need of rescuing than they are. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope--the things that save us, even in the most anxious of times. --
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of eight strangers hostage. Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. In short, they are the wrost group of hostages in the world. But as the minutes tick by, they begin to suspect that the criminal mastermind holding them hostage might be more in need of rescuing than they are. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope--the things that save us, even in the most anxious of times. --
