Making It - Hardcover

Lange, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525247491 ISBN 13: 9780525247494

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1989

Synopsis

Stated first edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Black remainder line at the book's bottom page block.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Though this engaging story about a parolee trying hard to go straight has many aspects of a suspense novel, it is so beguiling and realistic that narrow classification would be unfair. Jeremy Wurm gets a job at UPS and soon meets Berenice McSweeney, head cashier at the local Safeways market. She is 25 and quiescent after a short, bad marriage; he is four years older, eager for a relationship after nearly a decade in jail. These are two people ready for the real thing; a wonderfully realized love affair blooms between them, creating suspense for the reader both hopeful and afraid of its outcome. More tension is provided by Jeremy's parole officer, Loomis Perkins, who demands that Jeremy submit to his kinky sexual needs. Jeremy feels trapped, sees no way out short of returning to jail. He tries to solve this problem in the way he knows best--resorting to crime--and this leads to a frightening and touching climax. Lange ( Vandenberg ) does not let mechanical plot elements or conventional moralizing dominate: humdrum, prosaic life steps in and resolves Jeremy and Berenice's traumatic experiences in an infinitely more interesting and resourceful way.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Jeremy Wurm is 27, good looking, and ready for parole. Determined to go straight, he is even more optimistic when he meets supermarket cashier Berenice. The problem for him is his parole officer, Loomis, a psychotic motivated by religious fundamentalism and homosexuality. When Loomis insists on Jeremy's being more receptive to his advances, Jeremy feels his only way out is to rob Berenice's supermarket and flee. The robbery results in a duo of deaths; Loomis dies in an auto accident; and Berenice goes to Minneapolis to have her baby. Eventually Jeremy and Berenice are married and move to Oregon to raise apples and a family. The prose, albeit in the present tense, is brisk; and the book is readable enough, though this is not an essential purchase.
- Robert H. Donahugh, Youngstown & Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0525247491
• ISBN 13: 9780525247494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198