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Meet Syd Redding, the gruff, streetwise narrator of The
Narcissist’s Daughter. An ambitious working-class young man
and pre-med student, Syd passes the stultifying hours in Ethics class
fantasizing about the destruction of the Kesslers, his boss’s
well-to-do family, a threesome “moneyed and beautiful and
installed high in the city’s society.” As he steps
onto the doorstep of their great, grand mansion in the estate section
of town, Syd has no detailed plan in mind, only vague, delicious dreams
of vengeance. But when he meets the boss’s daughter, he soon
finds himself caught in the sexual machinations of this magnetic family
on the brink of unraveling.
In Holden's fifth novel, what begins as a simple if risky affair leads
from obsession through rage to a revenge plot that will transform the
lives of everyone involved. The Narcissist’s Daughter is an
unforgettably intelligent and moody thriller.
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