these violent delights by micah nemerever

The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever’s compulsively readable debut novel-a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection.A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year.

An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut of the Year.An O LGBTQ Book That Is Changing the Literary Landscape.A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Fall Book.A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year These Violent Delights: A Novel Paperback Septemby Micah Nemerever (Author) 629 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 23.49 Other new and used from 5.36 Paperback 15.99 Other new and used from 7.83 Audio CD 24.86 2 New from 24.Unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can bring forth in us.Ī Literary Hub Best Book of the Year But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.Īs their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal-an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father.

These violent delights by micah nemerever