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- Herausgeber: Ben Business Group LLC
- Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
Summary The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a historical fantasy novel by the American author V.E. Schwab published in 2020. It chronicles the story of Addie LaRue, an 18th-century Frenchwoman who gains eternal life through a bargain with a demonic entity. However, the deal comes at a great cost: Everybody who meets Addie immediately forgets her. A New York Times bestseller, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue received a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award nomination for Best Fantasy Novel. This study guide refers to the 2020 edition published by Tor Books.
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Table of contents
SUMMARY of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Introduction
Introducing The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Introducing the Author
Plot summary
Book: “The Gods That Answer After Dark”
Book, Chapter 1 Summary
Book, Chapter 2 Summary
Book, Chapter 3 Summary
Book, Chapter 4 Summary
Book, Chapter 5 Summary
Book, Chapter 6 Summary
Book, Chapter 7 Summary
Book, Chapter 8 Summary
Book, Chapter 9 Summary
Book, Chapter 10 Summary
Book, Chapter 11 Summary
Book, Chapter 12 Summary
Book, Chapter 13 Summary
Book, Chapter 14 Summary
Book, Chapter 15 Summary
Book, Chapter 16 Summary
Book, Chapter 17 Summary
Book Analysis
Conclusion
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SUMMARY of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a historical fantasy novel by the American author V.E. Schwab published in 2020. It chronicles the story of Addie LaRue, an 18th-century Frenchwoman who gains eternal life through a bargain with a demonic entity. However, the deal comes at a great cost: Everybody who meets Addie immediately forgets her. A New York Times bestseller, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue received a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award nomination for Best Fantasy Novel. This study guide refers to the 2020 edition published by Tor Books.
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Introduction
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction4
Introducing The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue5
Introducing the Author9
Plot summary13
Book: “The Gods That Answer After Dark”16
Book,Chapter 1 Summary16
Book, Chapter 2 Summary17
Book,Chapter 3 Summary18
Book, Chapter 4 Summary20
Book, Chapter 5 Summary20
Book,Chapter 6 Summary20
Book, Chapter 7 Summary22
Book, Chapter 8 Summary22
Book,Chapter 9 Summary23
Book, Chapter 10 Summary25
Book, Chapter 11 Summary25
Book, Chapter 12 Summary25
Book, Chapter 13 Summary26
Book,Chapter 14 Summary26
Book, Chapter 15 Summary27
Book, Chapter 16 Summary27
Book, Chapter 17 Summary28
Book Analysis30
Conclusion34
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a historical fantasy novel by the American author V.E. Schwab published in 2020. It chronicles the story of Addie LaRue, an 18th-century Frenchwoman who gains eternal life through a bargain with a demonic entity. However, the deal comes at a great cost: Everybody who meets Addie immediately forgets her. A New York Times bestseller, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue received a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award nomination for Best Fantasy Novel. This study guide refers to the 2020 edition published by Tor Books.
Introducing The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is author V.E. Schwab's literary fiction novel that switches between the present and the past to tell the story. The book revolves around the titular character of Addie LaRue, who goes on to live for 300 years after making a bargain with a devil. The book is divided into seven parts.
The first part is where Adeline or Addie LaRue is introduced as a young girl living in a small French village called Villon in 1691, 300 years ago. Addie's neighbor, Estele, taught her about the old gods who answered prayers but warned her to not summon them after dark. Estele also told Addie that the seven freckles on her face were representative of the seven people she would fall in love within her lifetime.
In 1714, Addie turned 23 and was rebellious and wild-spirited. Like other girls her age, she is expected to be wed and be a dutiful wife and mother. She is engaged but yearns to live a free life not belonging to anyone. Desperate, she prays to the old gods on the night before her wedding, and the devil answers. She doesn't realize, though, that the sun has set and asks the devil to set her free to live life as she wants. When the devil asks her for a gift in return, she offers a carved wooden ring, her favorite possession gifted by her father. However, the devil rejects it and instead asks for her soul in exchange after her life on Earth is done. Addie accepts the deal and is given eternal life but soon realizes what it meant to be free. Since then, no one could remember her as soon as she left their sight, she could have no possessions and couldn't leave her mark upon the world.
The story shifts to the present day, where Addie is living a lonely life, sneaking into strangers' apartments to sleep and steal. She tries to steal a book from a used bookstore but is caught by the clerk, Henry, who lets her go.
In Part Two, the devil makes a yearly appearance, asking Addie if she is ready to renounce her life and her soul, but she declines every time. He then takes on the form and name of Luc, an imaginary stranger that Addie had conjured up in her dreams. In the present day, Addie sees Henry again and is thrilled to learn that he recognizes her. Desperate to know more about him, she accepts his date proposal, and they begin to get to know each other.
In Parts Three & Four, Addie and Henry continue to see each other. She meets Henry's friends, but they don't recognize her. She is tempted to lie but doesn't want to betray the one person who recognizes her in the whole world. Hence, she divulges the truth about the devil and the bargain. To her surprise, she learns that Henry, too, had made a deal with the devil a year ago. He had been nursing a heartbreak and had exchanged his soul for a chance to be loved. Sadly, his wish, too, came at a cost, and everyone saw him as whatever they wanted him to be. He goes on to get a high paying job despite not meeting qualifications, and his ex-flames throng at him, demanding a second chance. He realizes that though people love him, they don't really see him, and thus he is left yearning for true love.
In Part Five, Addie begins narrating her story and experiences, and Henry begins writing it down in the form of a book. Addie travels across Europe, with Luc usually visiting on July 29, but skips meeting her in some years. He occasionally rescues her from sticky situations, claiming that he himself wanted to break her, but Addie accuses him of being lonely and yearning for a companion.
In Part Six, it is 1914, when Luc finally admits to liking Addie's company and gives her a wooden ring so as to call on him. She doesn't use it until 1944, when she gets arrested during WWII. A few years later, Luc admits to wanting her, and they end up in an affair that lasts for years. Addie falls for him, with both of them acknowledging their love for each other. In 1980, Addie pleaded with Luc to free her from their deal, but Luc says it requires her to surrender. They have a heated argument, after which Luc doesn't make an appearance for the next forty years.
In the present, Addie is dejected to learn that Henry's deal was only for a year. Henry had only a month left, after which Luc would claim his soul resulting in his death. Addie begs Luc to change his deal with Henry, but Luc refuses. He would only agree to her wish on the condition that she would give herself up in exchange for Henry’s life.
In Part Seven, Henry is alive and proceeds to publish his book on Addie, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. He publishes it as fiction and as an anonymous author. Luc thinks he has won, but Addie knows that her new deal only required her to stay with him only until he stopped fancying her. Addie plans to break the devil's heart and push him away.
Introducing the Author
Victoria (V. E.) Schwab is an American fantasy author who was born on July 7, 1987. She is currently 33 years old. Her mother hailed from Britain while her father was from the posh Beverly Hills on the West Coast of California. Due to her cross-cultural upbringing, she has a mixture of British and US accents and is known to say "tom-ah-toes," "like," and "y'all." She grew up on the West Coast; however, her schooling was completed in the south and she attended an all-girls prep school.
Schwab went to Washington University in St. Louis and had initially enrolled to study Physics. However, throughout the duration of the study, she changed her course, not once but six times. She changed her major from Physics all the way to Communication design while studying Film, Art History, Set Design, and English. She didn't change it the seventh time on the advice of family and friends who told her that major subjects couldn't be switched in the final semester.
Schwab started her first job as a clerk in a department store where she first met an erotica writer while working in the lingerie section. She has also worked as an assistant caterer as well as a personal chef that has amped up her cooking and baking skills. She also has worked as an attendant at a dog day-care in the summers. She got into the habit of reading while working at a bookstore and spent nearly all of her salary on buying books and reading them feverishly. She is a lover of fairy tales, and folklore, and books that make her wonder if the world is really as it seems. She loves writing about doors, and places in between, and the cracks where reality slips into something stranger, darker, and invariably more interesting.
In 2011, the author wrote her debut novel, The Near Witch. Her career started with a bang as she sold her debut novel to Disney before she had graduated from the Washington University in St. Louis. However, The Near Witch received a lukewarm response. Two years later, Schwab published the YA fantasy titled The Archived that was yet again bought by Disney but unfortunately wasn’t met with much excitement by the readers. Schwab, who had been 24 at that time, felt washed up. She had been living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and was broke; hence she decided to stay with her parents for a while. She had initially planned to stay with her parents in Nashville for three months, but she ended up staying for nine. That was when she knew that if writing ever failed, she could always hole up at her parents' place.
Schwab tasted commercial success with her 2013 thriller, Vicious. That same year, the film rights for Vicious were purchased by Story Mining & Supply Co and Scott Free Productions, Ridley Scott's production company. Since then, the author has written many YA series such as Shades of Magic, Cassidy Blake, Monsters of Verity, etc.
She spent nearly ten years imagining the protagonist of her current fantasy novel, Addie, and had been delaying writing it but felt she was ready to portray the character in 2020. An extensive tour was planned, but all schedules got canceled due to COVID-19. Schwab was confined to her parents' home in France, a 300-square-foot stone house that had been her quarantine refuge for five months. She had arrived at her parents' home a day before the French government declared a lockdown. She had believed that it would last for a maximum of one month, but she spent almost the whole year living with her parents, an odd thing for a 33-year-old woman.
She drew inspiration for her character while living in an ex-prison warden's backyard in Liverpool. Without her own transportation, Schwab had to rely on her roommate to drop her in various small towns, where she would spend her time exploring the area and the culture. One day, she paid a visit to a Lake District town with a timeless quality and wild atmosphere that left her reflecting on the pros and cons of immortality. She used this thought to craft the character of Addie. In 2020, we struggle to find hope and optimism when too many tedious days stretch ahead. The author states that though we can't fill our quarantine days like Addie, who is on an endless pursuit of fine art or good food or high culture, we can definitely indulge in stories.
When not writing, the author loves to hang out with her friends and watch movies. However, she claims that one of the big parts of her non-writing routine was exercise. She feels that exercise balances writing and gives her a chance to move and get away from the stories and work through them at the same time. Schwab is also a huge chocolate addict, so she claims that exercise helps her counterbalance the same. Her favorite authors include Laini Taylor, Neil Gaiman, Kristin Cashore, Cassandra Clare, Lucy Christopher, Suzanne Collins, and JK Rowling.
Plot summary
In 1714, in the French village of Villon-sur-Sarthe, 23-year-old Addie LaRue is to be married to a widower with three children. Refusing to resign herself to a life of rural domesticity, Addie flees to the forest and prays to entities she calls “the old gods.” As the sun dips below the horizon, a dark-haired, green-eyed stranger appears to grant her wish: eternal life for as long as she wants it. On the day Addie becomes too tired or bored of existence to go on, she will surrender her soul to the stranger. After the stranger grants her request, Addie realizes there is a major caveat to her everlasting existence: Nobody remembers her.
Even worse, she can neither forge new relationships nor rekindle old ones because whenever she is separated from an individual for even a second, that person forgets her. Anytime Addie tries to write, draw, or otherwise leave her mark, the words and pictures disappear. Finally, although Addie cannot die, she still feels the pain associated with hunger, cold, and injury. The stranger— whom Addie later names Luc— expects her to surrender within a year and abandon the extraordinary hardship of her new life.
For the first 12 months, she spends most nights on the streets of Paris, subsisting on stolen food and eking out meager wages as a sex worker. During her first winter since the transformation, she effectively freezes to death, only to wake up hours later in a cart weighed down by dead bodies. Addie, however, refuses to yield, and over time she learns to navigate the world without succumbing entirely to loneliness and the pain of starvation. The hardest part of Addie’s existence is her inability to forge lasting human connections. The mornings after sex, when her paramours wake up and fail to recognize her, are the worst. She learns to cope by serving as a muse, and over the years she leaves her mark on the works of numerous famous artists and musicians.
Meanwhile, Luc appears to Addie nearly every year on the anniversary of her curse. Each time, he asks her to yield, and each time she refuses. As the decades and centuries pass, Addie comes to view Luc with something like affection, given that he is the only entity who remembers her. In 1952, the two begin a sexual relationship that lasts three decades until Addie breaks it off, convinced that the sex was merely a stratagem employed by Luc to convince her to surrender her soul. The rest of the narrative takes place in New York City in 2014. One day, a young bookseller named Henry remembers Addie after she steals a book from his shop; it is the first and only time any human remembers her in three centuries.
Addie and Henry enjoy an idyllic relationship for a few weeks until she discovers the reason Henry remembers her: He, too, made a deal with Luc. Almost a year ago, Henry’s then-girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal. In the throes of suicidal despair, he made a deal with Luc to be loved by everyone who meets him for a year. After the year ends, he will relinquish his life and soul to Luc. By the time Addie learns this, Henry only has 36 days left. On what should be the last night of Henry’s life, Addie tells him that she made a new deal with Luc: She will be Luc’s exclusive romantic partner for as long as he will have her.
In exchange, Henry will be permitted to live out his natural life. Addie and Henry never see each other again. Devastated, Henry copes by publishing Addie’s life story as a book under the title The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Addie, meanwhile, secretly vows to drive Luc mad to the point that he no longer wants to be with her, even if it takes her centuries.
Book: “The Gods That Answer After Dark”
Book, Chapter 1 Summary
On March 10, 2014 in New York City, a young woman named Addie LaRue wakes up next to a songwriter named Toby. Though they have spent many nights together, he never remembers her in the morning. This is because Addie has a curse that grants her eternal life but makes it impossible for anyone to remember her the moment she leaves their presence. Embarrassed, Toby assumes— as he always does— that he got too drunk to remember going home with Addie. Meanwhile, Addie plays a song on the piano that Toby does not remember but that they’ve been working on writing over the past few dates. Without the ability to bring pen to paper herself, this is how she leaves her mark over the years: by inspiring artists and musicians.
