The Worst Kind of Want: A Novel

The Worst Kind of Want: A Novel

by Liska Jacobs

Narrated by Hillary Huber

Unabridged — 7 hours, 35 minutes

The Worst Kind of Want: A Novel

The Worst Kind of Want: A Novel

by Liska Jacobs

Narrated by Hillary Huber

Unabridged — 7 hours, 35 minutes

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Overview

A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex

To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline.

Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world-drinking, dancing, smoking-relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked, Cilla feels like she's coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin.

With the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.


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"…[Hillary Huber] never rushes Priscilla's more serious reveals as she paces the story to suit the growing tension…. Huber's facility with Italian words adds charm as she expresses the character's emotional fragility in this somewhat sensationalistic story." —AudioFile Magazine

OCTOBER 2019 - AudioFile

Narrator Hillary Huber never gives into the temptation to soften the edges of Priscilla, a prickly 40-something producer. Listeners may initially feel impatient with Priscilla's focus on beauty, and her belief that women become less appealing as they age. Nonetheless, Huber never rushes Priscilla's more serious reveals as she paces the story to suit the growing tension. Priscilla has relationship challenges, and Huber creates vivid characterizations of her demanding mother and her controlling older boyfriend. When she travels to Italy to visit her niece, she finds herself unable to resist her attraction to a 17-year-old male family friend whom her niece also likes. Huber's facility with Italian words adds charm as she expresses the character's emotional fragility in this somewhat sensationalistic story. M.J. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID: 2940177389400
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication date: 11/05/2019
Edition description: Unabridged
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