| International Standard Book Number |
9798217088034 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217088027 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217088041 (trade paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781094000633 (Blackstone Hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1094000639 (Blackstone Hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Bannister, Ilona, author.
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| Title Statement |
Five : a novel / Ilona Bannister.
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| Edition Statement |
First US edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Five people on a train platform, five minutes before it comes. One of them will die. Who should it be?"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Have you ever tried to pass the time by imagining the lives of the strangers standing next to you? Ilona Bannister's Five introduces readers to five seemingly random people waiting for a train. But these are not just any five people. From the beginning we know that one of them is going to die soon. Very soon. In five minutes the next train to London will arrive, killing one of them. But before this happens you will learn their stories. None of these people are saints. Readers might fall in love with the beautiful young man who is on the verge of gambling his life away. They may pity the cantankerous old woman who has fallen to the ground yet is refusing help. Perhaps readers will look away from the child throwing a tantrum. Or judge his mother, who must surely be to blame. And some will be curiously compelled by the successful and damaged businessman orbiting them all. These are the candidates for this morning's misfortune. But they don't know it. Only you know. And you, our complicit reader, will not be able to resist deciding who deserves to walk away, and who deserves only five more minutes to live. An incredibly original novel that breaks the fourth wall and asks the reader to be judge, jury, and executioner, Five looks at some of the most complicated issues of contemporary life: motherhood, disability, addiction. Every stranger has a story. And in Ilona Bannister's skillful hands, five people's stories come together to create an unforgettable novel.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Revenge Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Kidnapping Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Serial murderers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fugitives from justice Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Serial murder investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Visionaries Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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