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Taschenbuch: 185 Seiten
Verlag: St. Martin's Minotaur; Auflage: Reprint (Oktober 2000)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0312267525
ISBN-13: 978-0312267520
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 14,1 x 1,3 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.957.641 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Like her acclaimed Miami Purity--described as a "hymn to American trash culture" by New York Times Book Review--Vicki Hendricks' Iguana Love works to reclaim Noir sex and mayhem for women. Romana Romano, a heroine to be reckoned with, introduces herself frankly, bluntly, to her readers: "The dark side of my mind took control on one of those slippery-hot Miami nights about a year ago". It's a tone which runs throughout the book. Married--but not for much longer--to Gary, Romana begins to picture herself alone and with a life: of sex, diving and more sex. "I was going to be there no matter what": her (the novel's) declaration of independence and wanting sustains the drive of this narrative, and a reader's engagement with Romana's passions for iguanas and the sea, men and body building, and, finally, the "worst kind" of love. The sexual charge of the book is Romana's, a woman constantly looking and being looked at, delighting in the havoc she unleashes among the men at the diving club--wanting her, rivalling each other. Some scenes unsettle, blurring the boundaries (whatever they may be) between sexuality and violence, but this is heady and confident fiction-- like its heroine, able to take it. --Vicky Lebeau -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Ramona Romano is a young and beautiful Miami nurse whom you might, were you charitable, call "terminally insatiable." You might otherwise call her cheap, horny, cheesy, sleazy, dopey, and two other dwarves too explicit to mention. Well-built scuba-diving men, on the other hand, call her an answer to their prayers, and often. Her husband Gary has been shown the door. In his place is Ignatz, Ramona's freshly caught, five-foot iguana, and Enzo, a freshly shucked nightmare on the half shell.

I went into the bathroom and took my clothes off and crouched in the corner between the toilet and the tub. I curled over with my arms clasped around my knees, my face against my thighs, the toilet bowl wedged into my side, trying to chill myself, to change into a rational woman. Gary would come back with a word. If only I could accept normal married life, make it my goal to have a good marriage, help each other. I stayed there a long time, willing my muscles to atrophy. I tried to give up all my wild notions, but it didn't work. I had seawater on the brain. Divers to explore. Enzo. Flowing freedom. Without a lobotomy, I couldn't change.

Hey, Ramona: If Gary's Door Number 1, Enzo's Door Number 2, and the lobotomy's behind the curtain, take the curtain. But no--it's Enzo, and an inexorable slide into a special level of Miami hell tumescent with sexual deviates, sadistic drug runners, steroid-popping body builders--Ramona chief among them--and, finally, murderers.

It's porn noir. It's a woman's unwise (if not unwholesome) quest for marginally attainable lust and unattainable freedom through a man who's of our species by definition only. It's Miami-hot pulp friction. Vicki Hendricks's Iguana Love is all of that, and it's only her second novel (after 1995's Miami Purity). And beyond all of that, and most importantly, it's very well-written. --Michael Hudson

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She Devil With Style 4. M�rz 2000

Von C. Gilson

Format:Gebundene Ausgabe

Ms. Hendricks is one of the few writers who can bring this male reader to any book with the word "Love" in the title, but I'm drawn once again to the textured sociopathy of her protagonist. This author's craft and control is so assured, you forget that she's a literary writer and just get sucked into the vortex of her people... which never thrusts them perkily upward. By bringing her aching beauty to the drift toward vile behavior, Ms. Hendricks has enriched the land of noir in a most soaring and satisfying way.

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Ow! 16. Dezember 1999

Von William Barton

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The "flinch factor" in this book is unusually high. There are moments in the story many men have been through at one time or another, and I don't think any of us really wanted to know what was going on in the mind of the other person present.

I loved it and can hardly wait for Voluntary Madness to come out!

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A beautiful piece of cruel poetry. 18. November 1999

Von Ein Kunde

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As always Hendrick's books are much more than the the men, or the tropics, or the sex. Hendrick's Iguana Love is a sorrowful, brilliant piece of American Literature that talks about the lonliness of one woman and her enstrangement from humanity. At the core of Iguana Love is a very desparate creature , rotating from one sensation, to another, searching for that one thing that will make her "feel" something. She finds it in exactly who she is looking for.. a remote and cruel lover: A man she can not love, a man who dishes out pain and finally, a man who will let her remain in her place of numb isolation. Romona compares her iguana to this lover: cold, remote, dangerous. But, the iguana is not Enzo, it is Romona. And like the iguana, Romona is not male or female. And, it is the vacant soul of both Romona and the lizard that makes them the mirror image. And, yet, in the end, when Romona lays herself, crucifixion style across the dead body of the lizard, the depth of her grief, seems boundless . This is terrifying, lovely painful poetry, NOT smut. Like the ocean Romona swims in, there is a dark unfathomable truth about all of Hendrick's work. Her women are lonesome, deformed souls, living in a place devoid of warmth, trust or love. It is an unlearned reader who sees Hendrick's work as just erotic or sexual. Miami Purity and Iguana Love are studies of the desolation of women in the remote and cold reality of the contemporary world.

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