Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol; Smith, Rosamond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525944524 ISBN 13: 9780525944522

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1999

Synopsis

Lily Merrick is overjoyed at the return of her twin sister after a fifteen-year separation, unaware that the prodigal sibling has left a trail of male corpses in sleazy hotel rooms all over the country. By the author of Double Delight. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

In Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, Joyce Carol Oates astutely captures "the interior haunting of a human being by their ever-shifting sense of self." This fascination with identity, secret selves, and our private inner landscapes shapes many of Oates's works, and she even assumes her own other self when she writes as Rosamond Smith. This pseudonym allows Oates to escape into the world of the thriller, where the psychologically disturbed mind can still find a home.

Smith's seventh novel, Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon, is the story of identical twins, who have lived remarkably different lives. Sharon Donner (a.k.a. Starr Bright) is a Las Vegas stripper--and oh, yes, one of the most deadly female serial killers to have walked our planet. On the other end of the spectrum is her sister, Lily Merrick. As this demure-sounding name might suggest, Lily is an all-around good girl, housewife, and mother, who is completely unaware of her twin's murderous streak. Estranged for many years, Sharon decides it's time to pay her do-gooder of a doppelganger a visit, and makes her way to upstate New York. Of course, this won't be a cozy, Oprah Winfrey kind of reunion. Sharon's ugly past soon catches up with her, and thereby drags her twin into the very dangerous present. --Naomi Gesinger

About the Author:

Rosamond Smith is the pseudonym Joyce Carol Oates adopts when writing her novels of psychological suspense. Previous Rosamond Smith novels include Double Delight, You Can't Catch Me, Snake Eyes, Nemesis, Soul/Mate, and Lives of the Twins. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0525944524
• ISBN 13: 9780525944522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304