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About The Lifeguard
The Lifeguard is a 1988 young adult horror thriller novel by Richie Tankersley Cusick. The story follows Kelsey, a teenage girl on a holiday vacation, who begins witnessing the unfolding signs of a serial murderer who drowns their victims in the sea. Written as a standalone novel, The Lifeguard was taken in by Scholastic and published as book #3 under the imprint Point Horror. The book received contrasting reviews from modern day critics, but in recent decades has become admired for its original first edition cover, which featured a wavy blue-and-orange aquatic title font and an artistic illustration of a creepy male lifeguard on the beach, popular as an example of nostalgic seapunk aesthetics and retro pop culture art.
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