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“With her inimitable pitch-perfect interpretation, Julia Whelan assumes the role of Anna Williams-Bonner, literary widow, bestselling novelist, and eerily deceptive sympathetic protagonist, as she plots to bury her past and ensure her future. A send-up of the publishing industry and an intricate mystery, The Sequel is a delicious follow-up to The Plot, but also a worthy stand-alone. From Anna's sophisticated dialogue to Georgia lawyer Mr. Pickens, Esquire's, drawl, Julia Whelan's reading inserts the listener into Jean Hanff Korelitz's brilliant novel.”
— Cheryl McKeon, Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza • Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza
"Golden Voice Julia Whelan expertly narrates.... She paints the background detail as vividly as she does the characters." —AudioFile on The Latecomer, an Earphones Award winner
After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times bestseller The Plot comes Jean Hanff Korelitz’s equally captivating new novel: The Sequel.
Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contented life of a literary widow, enjoying her husband’s royalty checks in perpetuity, but for the second time in her life, a work of fiction intercedes, and this time it’s her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can it really be to write a universally lauded bestseller?
But when Anna publishes her book and indulges in her own literary acclaim, she begins to receive excerpts of a novel she never expected to see again, a novel that should no longer exist. That it does means something has gone very wrong, and someone out there knows far too much: about her late brother, her late husband, and—just possibly—Anna, herself. What does this person want and what are they prepared to do? She has come too far, and worked too hard, to lose what she values most: the sole and uncontested right to her own story. And she is, by any standard, a master storyteller.
With her signature wit and sardonic humor, Jean Hanff Korelitz gives listeners an antihero to root for while illuminating and satirizing the world of publishing in this deliciously fun and suspenseful read.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Plot, The Latecomer, You Should Have Known (which aired on HBO as The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as a film starring Tina Fey), The Devil and Webster, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for children. Her company BOOKTHEWRITER hosts Pop-Up Book Groups in which small groups of readers discuss new books with their authors. She lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon.
Reviews
“Wicked entertainment.”
—Kirkus, STARRED
"It’s another taut and compulsively readable spellbinder from Korelitz."
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED
“This book will fly off the shelves.”
—Library Journal
“Fans of Korelitz’s literary thriller The Plot will (manuscript theft! identity theft! murder most foul! soup!) get excited for the sequel: The Sequel, in which a certain author’s widow decides to write her own book—and discovers that she’s not the only one who knows a few secrets after all. Fun.”
—LitHub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024
"[A] hilariously snippy and deliciously mean satire of the publishing world in addition to a nail-biting suspense novel."
—BookPage, STARRED