- Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Reprint (14. August 2007)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0307387194
- ISBN-13: 978-0307387196
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,2 x 13,2 x 1,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (25 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 343.175 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Booklist
A lot of new novels come bearing the publisher's plug "erotic thriller," but most pan out to be limp in both respects! Moore's smashing new novel is billed as such--and lives up to its promotion to the fullest. Taut and tense, sparingly constructed and beautifully written, this seductive story of seductiveness follows a deadly sequence of events in the life of a creative-writing teacher at New York University. One of her students is getting a little too close for comfort, but that's the least of her concerns. A murder has occurred within earshot and view of her Washington Square brownstone, and the investigating officer, when he comes knocking, presents a beguiling situation. Isn't he the man she saw in the basement of a neighborhood bar engaged in a sexual act with the very same young woman whose photo is shown to her as the murder victim? Isn't it fun, then, finding herself falling into an affair with the detective, all the while wondering if he's a bad cop, a murderer, in fact? When her best friend is murdered, the titillating game becomes far more than that. The twist at the end is the perfect cap on a book that will keep you up all hours finishing it. Brad Hooper
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From Library Journal
Billed as an "erotic thriller," Moore's (Sleeping Beauties, LJ 9/1/93) latest is erotic, but it's certainly no thriller. The heroine is an English teacher who muses endlessly on the meanings of language, even at times when she should be experiencing intense emotion. She witnesses an event that leads to a grisly murder and becomes sexually involved with the cop investigating the case. Her closest friend, with whom she discusses sexual experiences in detail, is viciously murdered and mutilated by the same killer, and she herself falls victim, an interesting trick in a story told in the first person. Not only is the heroine distanced by language from her emotions, but so is the reader. Not recommended, although Moore has a following and larger collections may want to have a copy.?Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Susanna Moore, who usually writes introspective, slowly graceful novels about lost love and Hawaiian breezes, has outdone herself with a ripping thriller. New York has never seemed so insidiously dangerous. Moore captures her heroine's naively foolish carelessness with the perfect tone of the curious culture dweller. I hope the movie catches this "innocent in darkville" tone as well. Read Moore's other novels and you will see a finely honed literary talent without the tension of this novel. But never forget, Moore is amused by life, not least by the absurd casual violence that lurks along New York's nameless streets. Great novel with a haunting main character, shallow and clueless as a lamb among invisible wolves.
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The characters seemed so phony that I couldnt wait until they all bit the dust. After reading the haunting novel Collectors this book seemed liked pure trash. No atmosphere or character depth It stunk
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While Moore has a flair for dark descriptions of NYC nightlife and the singles scene, it seems evident she has no interest in characterizing heterosexual relationships unless they involve males as ego-cruising masochists and women as depressed suicidals. Darkness in noir fiction is fine but here the characters are so segregated into stereotypical holes that I found myself wondering about the author's view of the real world rather than those of the characters. Still, it manages to intrigue, and the dialogue is crisply written. My biggest complaint, however, is the ending which, without giving it away, is unexpected and quite unfair when you consider the book was written in the first person. I felt cheated, that the author was laughing at her readers. Yes, rules may be made to be broken but readers still expect a modicum of fairness and the final page disregards that.
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In A Word: Sickening!
I don't think I've ever read a book that disturbed me more than Moore's. It's blatant Grand Guignol, blood and gore and sadism, peopled with characters devoid of humanity with whom... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juni 2000 von Jo Manning
Promising elements, disappointing follow-through
Interesting characters, sexy premise, but underdeveloped, and, well, ultimately unsatisfying. I didn't need a "happy ending," but I felt . . . cheated. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Mai 2000 von William P. Tedesco
A disappointment
I really love Susanna Moore's other novels, The Whiteness of Bones, My Old Sweetheart, and Sleeping Beauties. However, this novel was really disturbing to me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
A better film!
This will probably make a great noir thriller with Nicole Kidman playing the sexy uninhibited protagonist. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. April 2000 von Michael Leonard
Sly, vacant , and dark exercise
I expected this book to be grim from the outset. The dark sexuality did not bother me. What did bother me was how soul-less the book was. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Januar 2000 von Staci Beasley
Like the tag line says
This book is a relatively involving thriller although i actually think the thriller aspect was written secondly to scenes of the narrator copping off with a 'tuff' New York... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Oktober 1999 von Honey Jameson (honeyjameson@netscape.net)
dark, disturbing, riveting
I read this book over two years ago and it still sticks with me. I liked the writing style, it sounded natural, especially the inner monologues, and it sucked me in immediately. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Ed Wood has (nearly) met his match.
Can anyone write worse prose than John Grisham? Or craft more predictable plots? Or hold a more boringly conventional moral view? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
neither erotic or thrilling...just trash
Having had to read this book for a university seminar I was obliged to finish it otherwise it would have hit the bin long before I reached the end. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
thriller? erotica? or else?
The story is short and bad for an erotica thriller. There aren't enough thrills to really make it a good thriller, and there aren't enough sex to make it a good erotica either. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
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