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A disturbing novel plumbs the cruelty and horror at the bottom rung of the American dream by following ex-con Luce LeMay on a mostly unsuccessful return to his extremely cold and unforgiving hometown. 20,000 first printing.
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Joe Meno is an adjunct professor in the creative writing department of Columbia College. His first novel, Tender as Hellfire, was published to great critical acclaim in 1999. He writes serially for Playboy.com and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Luce Lemay returns to his hometown in Illinois after serving time for accidentally running down a young mother's infant daughter, but hope turns to tragedy in Meno's (Tender as Hellfire) moving second novel. Lemay is a poetic ex-con who often waxes lyrical about his remorse for his crime as well as the tragic character flaws of his equally romantic best friend from the joint, a troubled giant named Junior Breen. Lemay is also a hard worker who wants to make good, though, and events take a positive turn when he gets a job at a local gas station and meets beautiful young Charlene Dulaire, a waitress at a diner. Their romance sours when Dulaire's ex-fianc‚, a brute named Earl Peet, attacks Lemay and threatens to run him out of town. Meno pens some wonderful scenes of courtship and setbacks in the course of love, and he also does some nice work bringing Breen to life and exploring his friendship with Lemay. The tragic confrontation between convicts and townies is somewhat predictable, but Meno gets considerable mileage from the give and take among Lemay's elderly boss and the two young ex-cons as they care for one another and try to overcome their earlier mistakes. Meno has a poet's feel for small-town details, life in the joint and the trials an ex-con faces, and he's a natural storyteller with a talent for characterization. The novel has some mawkish moments and certainly many disturbing ones, but overall it's a likable winner that should bolster Meno's reputation. National advertising; Midwest author appearances.
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- PublisherRegan Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0060394331
- ISBN 13 9780060394332
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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