Velocity

Literature & Fiction

MCCLOY, KRISTIN

Contemporary

RH Canada UK Dist

Devastated by the unexpected death of her mother, Ellie returns to her hometown and becomes involved with a former member of Hell's Angels

Random House]

Hip, fresh, and beautifully crafted, this radiant new novel by the author of Velocity explores the erotic possibilities of friendship. As a young woman struggles to come to terms with her newly-found independence after moving to New York, she is befriended by her dazzingly beautiful and mysterious neighbor. Reading tour.

Some Girls

United States

Plume

Devastated by the unexpected death of her mother, Ellie returns to her hometown and becomes involved with a former member of Hell's Angels

Random House Value Publishing

Overwhelmed by the chaotic pace of her new home in New York City, New Mexico-born Claire befriends the mysterious and sophisticated Jade, and enters a world of sensuality that demands she redefine her sense of self.

E.P.Dutton

When her mother dies in a car wreck, Ellis Lowell suspends boyfriend and career back in the Big Apple.  And spends that familiar long, hot summer with her father, a cop, and her forbidden new lover, Jesse, a pill-popping half-Cherokee who drives a Harley like a bat out of hell, hangs out with Hell's Angels and makes love with such torrid, above-the-earth perfection that McCloy's many sex scenes may set a new standard for Manhattan daydreams: "Hearing you groan to consciousness, feeling an arm, thick as my thigh, reaching to encircle me, pull me on top, you were like waking to a cannibal, your eyes brilliant with lawlessness, like an animal, insatiable and healthy, overcome with hunger first thing in the morning, not like the boys I'd known who needed to rise and pee, to make coffee and brush their teeth. . . . I can't describe the pleasure it gave me, how willingly I was taken, or how contagious that hunger was, how it filled me with the need to live, with an urgency to stay alive!"  Everything about this odd little gem of a story is wonderful. We never know what we are capable of, none of us do, when we are faced with isolation, pain, and loss.

A scalding exploration of love, marriage, fidelity, and betrayal. “Meet me at five,” the voice said on the answering machine. Four ordinary words yet, when heard by the wrong person, enough to change the course of a marriage. Marooned in Hollywood while writing a screenplay based on his latest bestselling novel, Miles King records in his journals his escalating conviction that his glamorous wife, a New York-based journalist named Maggie, is having an affair with Miles’s favorite student. Amidst the sun-buffed egos and the longing for connection and fame he encounters at every cocktail party and no-name bar in Hollywood, Miles finds unexpected comfort in an affair of his own with Lucy, a young mother whose open, eager mind sparks an irresistible passion in him. A potent brew of lust, guilt, anger, and betrayal, Miles’s journals reveal his constantly shifting emotional state and the perils he must navigate as his fantasies become increasingly hard to distinguish from reality. In Hollywood Savage, acclaimed novelist Kristin McCloy probes one modern man’s psychological depths with stunning accuracy, and illuminates the ways men and women try desperately to reveal themselves to one another, while still always keeping a part of their hearts a secret. Kristin McCloy was born in San Francisco and spent her childhood in Spain, India, and Japan. A graduate of Duke University, she is the author of the novels Velocity and Some Girls. Her novels have been published in more than fifteen countries. She currently lives in Oakland, California.

Hollywood Savage: A Novel

Literary

Atria Books

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Velocity

Velocity

Some Girls

Velocity

Some Girls

Velocity

Hollywood Savage: A Novel