Kill My Darling (Paperback)

Thanh Dinh

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Writerly Books, 2026

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Paperback. Kill My Darling is a noir fever dream dressed in sequins and bloodstains-a glittering descent into love, addiction, power, and the exquisite violence of wanting someone too much.Angela is not running from the body.She is walking toward it.When the novel opens, she is already disposing of her lover-Bambi Raymond, a famous rapper, a cultural idol, a beautiful ruin. The man the world adored is now a secret rotting beneath her hands. Fame does not die quietly. Neither does love. And neither, it turns out, does guilt.Told in fractured timelines that shimmer between past and present, Kill My Darling traces the anatomy of a relationship that burned too bright to survive. Angela meets Bambi at the edge of his myth: a rising star with a god complex, a poet of destruction, a man adored by crowds and devoured by his addictions. He is charismatic, brilliant, cruel, and terrifyingly tender. He is the kind of man people excuse until it is far too late.Angela knows better.She stays anyway.What unfolds is not a romance but a collision-between desire and self-preservation, between art and annihilation, between the woman Angela wants to be and the woman she is becoming. Drugs blur memory. Love mutates into obsession. Violence slips in quietly, like a lover who knows where you hide your knives. As Bambi spirals deeper into madness, Angela begins to fracture, haunted by hallucinations, doubling identities, and a voice that refuses to let the past stay buried.The novel moves with cinematic precision-from dim Toronto cafes and neon-lit studios to hotel rooms thick with smoke, paranoia, and unspoken threats. It is glamorous without mercy, poetic without apology. Every scene glitters; every sentence cuts. The city itself becomes an accomplice, pulsing with desire and decay.At its core, Kill My Darling is a psychological portrait of a woman pushed past the edge-by love, by power, by the myth of men who are allowed to destroy everything and still be called geniuses. It interrogates celebrity culture, gendered violence, and the romanticization of male self-destruction, asking a dangerous question: What does it cost to love a monster when the world insists he is a god?As Angela's grip on reality loosens, the narrative tightens-spiraling toward a revelation that reframes everything: the murder, the love, the lies she tells herself to survive. Nothing is clean. No one is innocent. And redemption, if it exists at all, comes with teeth.Blending literary noir, psychological thriller, and poetic confession, Kill My Darling will appeal to readers of dark, stylized fiction that refuses to look away-fans of glamour-soaked tragedy, unreliable narrators, and stories where love is both the crime and the motive.This is a novel about women who survive by becoming dangerous.About beauty that bruises.About love that kills-and what remains when it does.Pretty.Witty.Bloody.A kiss with a knife hidden behind the smile. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Kill My Darling (Paperback)
Autor
Thanh Dinh
Verlag
Writerly Books
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1069499889
ISBN-13
9781069499882
Illustrator
Araujo, Tiago

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