"Hypnotic and scary." --Stephen King
"I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious." --Lena Dunham
From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine''s Best Books of the Year, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age.
When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she''ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight--the perfect place for a "chance" meeting.
As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck''s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck''s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way--even if it means murder.
A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that''s being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King''s Misery.
充滿上癮魔力的心理驚悚小說,令人膽戰心驚!——史蒂芬.金盛讚
自她進入喬伊工作的東村書店那一剎那,喬伊便注意到她,在後續的言談間,喬伊更加確定她是自己要找的目標。喬伊先做了大家都會做的事:利用GOOGLE搜尋她信用卡的名字。
全紐約市只有一個桂妮薇爾.貝可,她有隱私設定為公開的臉書帳號,而且發推特總是發得沒完沒了,這讓喬伊得以查出他所需要知道的一切:她朋友直接叫她貝可,念過布朗大學,住在銀行街,今晚要去布魯克林的某間酒吧——這正是製造「巧遇」的完美機會。
喬伊宛若著魔了般開始偷偷摸摸掌控貝可的生活,他刻意搞出一堆事情,就是為了要讓貝可投入他的懷抱。他終於從變態跟蹤者變成了男友,值此同時,他還得忙著剷除兩人戀愛之路上的各種障礙——不計任何手段,就算得殺人也一樣……
《安眠書店》深入探索我們面對偷窺與操控時的無能為力,過程令人恐懼心驚。初試啼聲的作家卡洛琳.凱普尼斯,為這個網路成癮的數位時代所寫下的小說,洞察力十足。節奏暢快,令人愛不釋手,足與《控制》、《美國殺人魔》、史蒂芬.金《戰慄遊戲》等書相互媲美。