# Party Animal

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- Book: [Party Animal](https://www.bookquiver.com/leonardo-san-pietro/party-animal) ([Party Animal.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leonardo-san-pietro/party-animal.md))
- Authors: [Leonardo San Pietro](https://www.bookquiver.com/leonardo-san-pietro)
- Publisher: jonathan_cape
- Translated by: Todd Portnowitz
- ISBN: 978-17-8733-655-1
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2027-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It’s the beginning of summer. Isa M., a literature student, is throwing a party at her family’s villa on the outskirts of Turin. The music is loud, the drinks are flowing, and the garden is packed with friends – and maybe a few gatecrashers. The only guest who hasn’t arrived yet is Ezio, the boy she’s falling in love with. Then an anonymous gift turns up on the kitchen table: a bottle of wine with a card that reads, Unless someone touches the cassowary before one a. m., Ezio dies . At first it seems like a prank. Except Ezio still isn’t answering his phone. And no one’s sure who brought the bottle. Or what, exactly, a cassowary is . . . As the hours tick by – and the undergrads wade further into a heady mix of alcohol, drugs, jealousy, lust and dread – the gravity of the dare sinks in.