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Title: Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke ISBN: 0-8021-3664-8 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this book!
Comment: This book starts off slow but catches up fast and keeps the reader very interested. It could easily be made into an independent/sundance film. Read it!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy this Dazzling book!
Comment: "There are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself." Darcey Steinke writes a well detailed exploration through the mind and journey of a young girl, Jesse, trying to find herself in San Francisco. Jesse lives with her boyfriend, Bell, in a little apartment. They both seem depressed and lost most of the time. Bell is a sullen bisexual which makes Jesse feel inadequate and unwanted. She goes in search of more and finds the perfect opportunity when her friend,Pig, asks her to find her "daughter", Madison, for her because she is dying. Jesse discovers Madison at a sleazy strip bar. Madison turns out to be one of Pig's old lovers, and is a free spirit with a small drug habit that Jesse finds intriguing. She moves in with her and starts working at the club and prostituting like Madison. She soon loses herself in Madison's dark life. However, she always returns to Bell because she wants him to want her and thinks she is in love with him. She is constantly changing things about herself to get him to like her more, which she realizes makes her exactly like her mother who she finds pathetic and annoying. This realization along with others helps he find herself. I enjoyed reading this book because it has shock appeal and a terrific surprise ending which I'm not going to give away. I also liked it because the characters were all very different and fascinating. Also recommended: THE LOSERS' CLUB by Richard Perez
Rating: 3
Summary: Good prose, but spotty
Comment: This is not Steinke's first novel, though at points it reads like one. Yes, the prose is luscious, intense, and at points quite brilliant, but there's nothing that quite holds it together. Themes are opened and closed with too hard a hand.
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Title: Layover by Lisa Zeidner, Random House Inc. ISBN: 0060956496 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey ISBN: 0060094850 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Swimming Sweet Arrow : A Novel by Maureen Gibbon ISBN: 0316355569 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Have You Seen Me? by Laura Denham ISBN: 0786710624 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Downers Grove by Michael Hornburg ISBN: 0802137938 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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