Perfidia - Softcover

Rossner, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440226139 ISBN 13: 9780440226130

Publisher: Island Books, 1998

Synopsis

Her mother makes love to strangers and chooses the worst kind of friends.  Her classmates talk of going to college, but Madeleine, with a scholarship waiting at an Ivy League school, knows that escape is unlikely.  For Maddy's life revolves around one thing: her jealous, raging, promiscuous mother.

And now that Maddy has a lover of her own, now that her mother's delusion-filled, grudge-filled, lover-filled life is crashing down around them, now that Maddy knows leaving would be the deadliest blow of all, there is only one way out: through a terrifying, disastrous moment that will change everything forever....  

In her explosive novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner issued a chilling wake-up call to a generation intoxicated by sexual freedom.  Now the New York Times bestselling author explores another fatal love: in this unforgettable novel of mother-daughter love gone torturously, tragically wrong.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Between mother and daughter is the darkest side of love...

"Perfidia burns hypnotically to an explosive climax...Judith Rossner again delivers a jolting demonstration of the dangers of blind love."
--Time

"A tour de force."
--Los Angeles Times

"A scorching portrait...Rossner reveals a gritty new style, stripped down to the clean bones of feeling."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Relentless, suspenseful, and absolutely captivating."
--Kirkus Reviews

A New York Times Notable Book

An alternate selection of the Book-of-the-Month club

About the Author:

Judith Rossner's novels include Looking for Mr. Goodbar, August, Attachments, Emmeline (the basis of a new opera that received its world premiere in 1996), and Olivia.  She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0440226139
• ISBN 13: 9780440226130
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384