Audition

AuditionThe mesmerising new novel from the author of Intimacies that asks who we are to the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. Shes an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. Hes attractive, troubling, young, young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the

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PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin

it will have touched on every métier contributing to the art of Haute Horlogerie