This sharp novel reads like Single White Female rewritten as a collaboration between Paul Bowles and Mary McCarthy. Tangerine A Novel By Christine Mangan On Sale: Janu16.99 Now: 13.59 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. It’s a story about female friendship, about loss, about being an outsiderand it’s also a bit of a psychological thriller as well. Although some of the plot developments are easy to predict, the novel is narrated persuasively in alternating chapters by Alice and Lucy, and Mangan’s portrayal of Tangier is electric. Tangerine is the story of two friends and former college roommates, Lucy and Alice, who are reunited in 1950s Morocco. A tragedy ultimately broke their friendship, and there is every indication that another accident of some kind will occur in Tangier the twisted history of this relationship seems fated to repeat itself. Tangerine is the debut novel of Christine Mangan and comes after its publisher is Ecco/HarperCollins bought the publishing rights for 1.1M earlier this week before turning it out to set up. Tangerine, Christine Mangan’s first novel, opens with three men pulling a corpse from the waters off Tangier, wondering what kind of birds pecked out its eyes and whether dead bodies weigh more. At the same time, the story flashes back to the girls’ passionate friendship at Bennington, where they were inseparable until Tom, a drama student from Williams, came between them. A suspected dalliance by John paves the way for Lucy to reassert her position with the emotionally fragile and easy-to-manipulate Alice. Christine Mangan's vaunted new novel Tangerine (it's already in production by George Clooney, with Scarlett Johanssen as lead) has been called out by some reviewers for its tired. Lucy, meanwhile, revels in the raffish individuals found in the souk. Alice doesn’t especially enjoy living in Tangier, which is too foreign for her liking. Now, after a year apart, they meet again in 1956 in Tangier, where Alice and her new husband, John McAllister, have moved for his job. Alice Shipley and Lucy Mason met as freshman at Bennington in the early 1950s and became the best of friends. The spirit of Patricia Highsmith’s sociopathic social climber Tom Ripley is alive in Mangan’s transportive debut.
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