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This novel spins a complex web of contradictory stories and difficult questions: What has Elly been doing in Colombia, California and now New York? Why has she suddenly summoned her oldest friend, Marla, to her aid? And why has her love for Lenny made her so desperate?
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Sarah Dunant is the author of six crime novels for which she won two Silver Daggers. Cultural commentator - for many years she presented The Late Show - she was editor of War of the Words (Virago 1994). Her two previous novels, Transgressions and Mapping the Edge, were the subject of major acclaim.
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It's unusual to find a credible friendship between women blended into the pages of a tightly written thriller, but Dunant's first novel rises well above the genre's watermark. A shaky summons from her estranged friend Elly draws Marla from the cool reaches of an English summer to the humid streets of New York. A determinedly dusty academic, Marla doesn't expect to outshine exotic Elly, but the woman who meets her at the airport is a washed-out version of her once vibrant schoolmate. After globetrotting for several seasons, Elly has hooked up with a strikingly attractive, charismatic liar named Lennie, who lives for the high he gets from cocaine, which he smuggles and deals. Initially, their affair energized Elly; now she has sunk into a slough of drug-induced despair, from which her lover refuses to lift a hand to save her. With grim relish, Marla prepares to battle for Elly's soul, encouraging her to take refuge at the California estate of Lennie's enigmatic ex-partner, J.T. What follows is an intricate psychological chess game that escalates to murder. Sharp-edged humor, a devious, neo-Gothic plot that twists back on itself and a lust for revenge impel the novel to its inexorable finale.
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0394570189
- ISBN 13 9780394570181
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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