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"An energetic, startling novel. Emily Schultz is a writer with a deadly sense of humor." -- Peter Orner, author of" Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge", and "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" "Like the literary love child of Naomi Wolf and Stephen King...the result is a spellbinding brew, both satirical and deeply satisfying."
-- Helene Wecker, author of "The Golem and the Jinni

""Sharp and fluid and legitamately disturbing. A thinking person's nailbiter."
-- Ben Lorry, author of "Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
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"Emily Schultz is my new hero."
--Stephen King

"An energetic, startling novel. Emily Schultz is a writer with a deadly sense of humor." -- Peter Orner, author of" Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge", and "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" "Like the literary love child of Naomi Wolf and Stephen King...the result is a spellbinding brew, both satirical and deeply satisfying."
-- Helene Wecker, author of "The Golem and the Jinni

""Sharp and fluid and legitamately disturbing. A thinking person's nailbiter."
-- Ben Lorry, author of "Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"
"Emily Schultz is my new hero."
--Stephen King
"An energetic, startling novel. Emily Schultz is a writer with a deadly sense of humor." -- Peter Orner, author of" Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge," and "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" "Like the literary love child of Naomi Wolf and Stephen King...the result is a spellbinding brew, both satirical and deeply satisfying."
-- Helene Wecker, author of "The Golem and the Jinni
""Sharp and fluid and legitamately disturbing. A thinking person's nailbiter."
-- Ben Lorry, author of "Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"
"A nail-biter that is equal parts suspense, science fiction, and a funny, dark sendup of the stranglehold of gender." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred)

Praise for Emily Schultz
"EMILY SCHULTZ IS MY NEW HERO."
--STEPHEN KING
"LIKE THE LITERARY LOVE CHILD OF NAOMI WOLF AND STEPHEN KING, The Blondes examines our cultural attitudes about beauty through the lens of a post-9/11, high-alert nightmare. The result is a SPELLBINDING brew, both satirical and deeply satisfying."
--Helene Wecker, author of "The Golem and the Jinni
"
"Sharp and fluid and legitimately disturbing. A THINKING PERSON'S NAILBITER."
--Ben Lorry, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"The Blondes is intelligent, MESMERIZING, and fearless. An entirely
original and beautifully twisted satire with a heart of darkness."
--Emily St. John Mandel, author of "The Lola Quartet
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"An energetic, startling novel. Emily Schultz is a writer with a deadly sense of humor. YOU LAUGH ONE MOMENT, YOU'RE FRIGHTENED THE NEXT. As unsettling as it is funny, The Blondes had me hooked from an early line: The neighbors have finished burning the hair... How could anybody not read on from there?"
--Peter Orner, author of "Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
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"Emily Schultz gives new meaning to the term 'femme fatale' in her apocalyptic, darkly satirical new novel... A gripping and unsettling story...It's a scarily realistic state of affairs."
--"The Toronto Star
" "The Blondes takes you by surprise and keeps on surprising."
--Andrew Pyper, author of "The Demonologist"

Praise for Emily Schultz

EMILY SCHULTZ IS MY NEW HERO.--STEPHEN KING on Emily Schultz

LIKE THE LITERARY LOVE CHILD OF NAOMI WOLF AND STEPHEN KING, "The Blondes" examines our cultural attitudes about beauty through the lens of a post-9/11, high-alert nightmare. The result is a SPELLBINDING brew, both satirical and deeply satisfying.--Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the Jinni

Sharp and fluid and legitimately disturbing. A THINKING PERSON'S NAILBITER.--Ben Lorry, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

"The Blondes" is intelligent, MESMERIZING, and fearless. An entirely original and beautifully twisted satire with a heart of darkness.--Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet

An energetic, startling novel. Emily Schultz is a writer with a deadly sense of humor. YOU LAUGH ONE MOMENT, YOU'RE FRIGHTENED THE NEXT. As unsettling as it is funny, "The Blondes" had me hooked from an early line: The neighbors have finished burning the hair... How could anybody not read on from there?--Peter Orner, author of Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge

Reseña del editor

The Blondes is a hilarious and whipsmart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, all of whom must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness.

Hazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens, she learns she is pregnant (from an affair with her married professor) at an apocalyptically bad time: random but deadly attacks on passers-by, all by blonde women, are terrorizing New Yorkers. Soon it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange illness that is transforming blondes—whether CEOs, flight attendants, students or accountants—into rabid killers.

Emily Schultz's beautifully realized novel is a mix of satire, thriller, and serious literary work. With biting satiric wit, The Blondes is at once an examination of the complex relationships between women, and a merciless but giddily enjoyable portrait of what happens in a world where beauty is—literally—deadly.