The Serpentā s Bite - Signed & inscribed

Warren Adler

ISBN 10: 159006044X / ISBN 13: 9781590060445

Published by Stonehouse Press, NY, 2012

About this Item

Storehouse Press, NY, 2012, 313 pages. First edition Advance Readers Copy in wraps issued prior to the hardcover First. The Author has Signed and inscribed to previous owner on 1/2 title page. The book is in Near Fine condition with a bit of shelfwear, and scratch to rear panel(Please review photos). Otherwise tight, square, and clean. A psychological thriller "greed, blackmail, and danger loom on the trails of the Yellowstone wilderness", from the author of The War of the Roses. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Black and white illustrated wraps.

Seller Inventory # 2025216

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Serpentā s Bite - Signed & inscribed
• Publisher: Stonehouse Press, NY
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159006044X
• ISBN 13: 9781590060445
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First edition Advance Readers Copy.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: NA
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Action & Adventure

About this title

Synopsis

In an attempt to reconnect with his two alienated adult children, George Temple replicates the memorable horse trek through the forbidding Yellowstone wilderness they had enjoyed twenty years earlier. But his callous children, Courtney and Scott, accompany him only to persuade him to restore the financial support he has withdrawn. As they are led by a drunken guide and a venal horse wrangler over potentially lethal terrain, their bonding experience quickly disintegrates.

Nostalgia is corrupted into a nightmare of lust, betrayal, and entrapment as the children's disturbing motives are revealed and dark family secrets are exposed. Courtney's appetite for selfish and violent pursuits establishes her as one of the most evil women in fiction, alongside the likes of Lady Macbeth. Through her, Warren Adler explores how an obsession for celebrity and blind ambition can distort familial love and turn a beloved child into a grotesque monster. As he did in the iconic The War of the Roses, Adler paints a frightening picture of the American family, only more sinister.

About the Author

Warren Adler is best known for The War of the Roses, his masterpiece fictionalization of a macabre divorce turned into the Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated dark comedy hit starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. In addition to the success of the stage adaptation of his iconic novel on the perils of divorce, Adler has optioned and sold film rights to more than a dozen of his novels and short stories to Hollywood and major television networks. Random Hears (starring Harrison Ford and Kirsten Scott Thomas), The Sunset Gang (starring Jerry Stiller, Uta Hagen, Harold Gould, and Doris Roberts), Private Lies, Funny Boys, Madeline's Miracles, Trans-Siberian Express, and his Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series are only a few titles that have forever left Adler's mark on contemporary American authorship from page to stage to screen.