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Devastated by the unexpected death of her mother, Ellie returns to her hometown and becomes involved with a former member of Hell's Angels
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Her compelling, erotic first novel marks McCloy as an accomplished writer who is not afraid to handle a difficult subject. In a spare yet lyrical prose style that reflects the intensity of the narrator's emotions, it tells of a few weeks in the life of 25-year-old Ellie Lowell, who has come home to North Carolina after her mother's sudden death. Alone with her father, a loving but taciturn policeman, Ellie is unable to deal with her grief and sense of overwhelming loss. Though she is an aspiring film director in Manhattan, Ellie takes a daytime job as a waitress in a seedy local restaurant. At night, in the grip of an uncontrollable need she makes no effort to deny, Ellie sneaks out of the house to a shack down the road where she seduces Jesse, a tattooed, menacing, half-Cherokee drug dealer and member of Hell's Angels, whose Harley motorcyle symbolizes Ellie's need to speed past her sorrow into the mindless fulfillment of sex. Images of velocity abound in the slim text: Ellie's mother died in a car accident, "the rush and shock and smash of the rest of her life accelerating to meet her head-on through the windshield." As the weather grows hotter day by day, so does Ellie's carnal heat and unappeasable lust. In sustaining a highly concentrated focus, McCloy makes Ellie's feverish behavior inevitable and credible. She is equally successful in depicting the hermetic atmosphere of a small Southern town and the people who live there. Movie rights to Chartoff Productions; Literary Guild featured alternate; major ad/promo.
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- PublisherArrow Books Ltd
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 009964570X
- ISBN 13 9780099645702
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 256 pages. Cover very worn.Reviews Love, and the pain of its loss, are at the heart of this exceptional first novel. When her mother dies in a car accident, 25-year-old Ellie Lowell leaves h er lover and work in New York to spend the summer with her father in her North Carolina hometown. But Ellie and Tom Lowell, never close, offer each other little comfort; he's a cop who works over time for distraction, she's a waitress who finds no balm for her grief at work. Vulnerable, she's drawn to and soon obsessed with a half-Cherokee drug-dealing biker; she finds herself risking rep utation and relationships as she drowns her sorrow in sex. McCloy draws these characters beautifully in clean, spare prose, which is alternately deeply sensual and achingly moving. A striking lit erary debut. Literary Guild Alternate. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty . P.L., Va. Her compelling, erotic first novel marks McCloy as a n accomplished writer who is not afraid to handle a difficult sub ject. In a spare yet lyrical prose style that reflects the intens ity of the narrator's emotions, it tells of a few weeks in the li fe of 25-year-old Ellie Lowell, who has come home to North Caroli na after her mother's sudden death. Alone with her father, a lovi ng but taciturn policeman, Ellie is unable to deal with her grief and sense of overwhelming loss. Though she is an aspiring film d irector in Manhattan, Ellie takes a daytime job as a waitress in a seedy local restaurant. At night, in the grip of an uncontrolla ble need she makes no effort to deny, Ellie sneaks out of the hou se to a shack down the road where she seduces Jesse, a tattooed, menacing, half-Cherokee drug dealer and member of Hell's Angels, whose Harley motorcyle symbolizes Ellie's need to speed past her sorrow into the mindless fulfillment of sex. Images of velocity a bound in the slim text: Ellie's mother died in a car accident, `` the rush and shock and smash of the rest of her life accelerating to meet her head-on through the windshield.'' As the weather gro ws hotter day by day, so does Ellie's carnal heat and unappeasabl e lust. In sustaining a highly concentrated focus, McCloy makes E llie's feverish behavior inevitable and credible. She is equally successful in depicting the hermetic atmosphere of a small Southe rn town and the people who live there. Movie rights to Chartoff P roductions; Literary Guild featured alternate; major ad/promo. (O ctober). Seller Inventory # 2238s
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