Description
Crush by Frédéric Dard is a dark, tightly wound psychological thriller that plunges the reader into the unsettling world of obsession and manipulation. Set in a small American town, the novel follows Louise, a vulnerable teenage girl living in poverty, who becomes fixated on a mysterious stranger named Boyd. What begins as an infatuation spirals into a dangerous and disturbing entanglement, where illusions blur with reality and innocence gives way to complicity. Dard’s prose is lean and razor-sharp, stripping away sentiment to expose raw emotion and latent menace.