St. Martin's Griffin
The Pairing: Special 1st Edition
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A Best Book of the Year for The New York Times, People, Elle, USA Today, Saveur, and more!
LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN--featuring sprayed edges with a stenciled script design. Only available for a limited time and while supplies last.
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other--except they're definitely not.
Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all.
Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but--yeah. It's in the past.
All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately.
It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It's fine. There's nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition?
But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.
"The summer's best romance novel." - Rolling Stone
"Spicy, sexy and absolutely delicious." - People
"Move over 'hot girl summer' - 'hot bisexual summer' is ready for its moment and Casey McQuiston's new novel The Pairing is here to usher it in." - USA Today
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781250862747
EAN:
9781250862747
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
432
Authors:
Casey McQuiston
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Published Date: 2024-06-08
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To many characters, I felt the book was more about all the characters & notThoe & kit
Sensual, flavorful, a bit exotic, full of love for all things and of course very romantic. It’s a story full of experience(s).
What a love affair with a book I’ve just had! Immediately read this after Casey’s last book, One Stop had me in tears at the end. Gobbled this up in two days. Great to be swept up in not only a love affair, but one with culture and art and wine and food and Europe.
What a gastronomique romance in this novel…every page pairs gorgeous food and drink with requited passion that two people fear, until they get brave enough to share…
This will sound odd, but . . . this book is more crammed full of words . . . than any other book I have ever read! I keep re-reading passages . . . . marking them, sharing them with other people. This is a remarkable book . . . . for anyone who has ever loved, lusted, ached . . . been in love, broken up . . . hoped and raged . . . . and . . . moved on, in whatever direction.
