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Smith, Rosamond Nemesis
New York, New York, U.S.A. E P Dutton 1990 0525248811 / 9780525248811 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO price clippings. Remainder mark on bottom. 276 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. From The Critics Publishers Weekly The pseudonymous Smith's third elegant and sensational thriller ( Lives of the Twins; Soul/Mate ) is set in an affluent Connecticut suburb whose cultural hub is its conservatory of music. Here pianist Maggie Blackburn--34, lonely, diffident, austerely beautiful in her coronet of silver-blond braids--performs and teaches, selflessly devoted to her students. After the fall term is launched at a bibulously festive faculty party with a guest list of eccentrics, the predatory Pulitzer-winning composer-in-residence, aging, gay ``glamorous-thuggish'' Rolfe Christensen, rapes graduate student Brendan Bauer, a stammering, naive ex-seminarian. Outraged Maggie befriends Brendan, who is accused of murdering Christensen via a pre-Christmas gift box of lethally laced chocolates. When the bondage/knifing murder of another gay colleague further implicates Brendan, Maggie turns sleuth. The plot fuses the lurid and literary to focus on such issues as sexual harassment, styles of masculinity, the menace of AIDS. The romantic angle is gratifying, as is the bounty of musical imagery. The gifted Rosamond Smith is Joyce Carol Oates. (July) Library Journal The rape of a male graduate student by Rolf Christensen, a famous composer and faculty member, follows a cocktail party given by Maggie Blackburn, director of graduate music education at Curtis Institute of Music in Forest Park, Connecticut. When Brendan Bauer brings charges against Christensen, the less-than-courageous ethics committee generates a cover-up. Someone is out to get Christensen, however, and Bauer seems to be the only suspect. Then Maggie begins an investigation of her own. The story moves at a languid pace through the details of Maggie's life to her championing of her friend. Nemesis is hard to classify. It is not a true ``detection'' mystery, as the author hides everything from the reader; it is not completely satisfying as a novel, since the characters are undeveloped. Yet it is an intriguing tale of life in a music conservatory set within a counterplot of what happens to people when they are touched by evil. Smith is the pseudonym of Joyce Carol Oates.--Ed.-- Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights, P.L., Ohio
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Smith, Rosamond Soul/Mate: A Novel
New York, New York, U.S.A. E P Dutton 1989 0525247688 / 9780525247685 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Very Good +
Very-nice, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $17.95. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 248 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. Annotation Rosamond Smith establishes herself as a premier suspense novelist with one of the most engrossing psychothrillers in recent years, a novel that shows at every riveting, unexpected turn, the hand of a master. A chilling tale about a psychopathic serial killer with a lover's face . . . described by Elmore Leonard as "a hair-raiser." Rosamond Smith is a pseudonym for Joyce Carol Oates. Publishers Weekly A handsome, charming pathological killer meets a lovely young widow in this romantic thriller. ``With action scenes struggling to emerge from prose laden with exaggeration and verbosity, Smith's new psychothriller is a good story spoiled in the telling,'' maintained PW. Smith is a pseudonym for Joyce Carol Oates. (June) Biography In a prolific and varied oeuvre that ranges over essays, plays, criticism, and several genres of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates has proved herself one of the most influential and important storytellers in the literary world.
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