Bad Marie: A Novel - Brossura

Dermansky, Marcy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061914711 ISBN 13: 9780061914713

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2010

Riassunto

Reentering society after a six-year prison term, voluptuous Marie takes a job as a nanny to her upwardly mobile childhood friend and finds complications in her employment culminating in her flight to Paris with the baby and her friend's husband. By the award-winning author of Twins. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Marcy Dermansky’s slim picaresque follows the misadventures of a nanny who absconds to Paris with her charge and the toddler’s dashing father. Marie is the amoral engineer of multiple train wrecks, but in Dermansky’s hands she’s somehow irresistible.” (Time magazine)

“Dermansky does proud the long, often sketchy, sometimes illustrious tradition of transgressive fiction with BAD MARIE . . . Her Marie is no cry-baby Anna Karenina fated to a star-crossed love for which she pays with her life.” (Elle)

“Not enough women write novels like this one. Dermansky is funny and fearless. I like Marie so much because she seems to care so little whether I like her or not. That’s a working definition of badass. Bad Marie is one.” (Esquire)

“[Marie is] an antiheroine for our time . . . A page-turning melodrama told with chilled cosmopolitan irony, the moral puzzles at the heart of BAD MARIE linger after the delicious meringue of the book has been consumed. Cool trick, Ms. Dermansky.” (Newsday)

“Deliciously wicked.” (Slate)

“I didn’t want to finish this book any time soon, didn’t want to emerge from its dark and wondrous world. My God, what a writer -- absolutely unpredictable, wild with intellect, spilling with charm and sadness and humanity. Marie, the main character here, is literary gold, worthy of Flaubert.” (Mary Robison)

“Marcy Dermansky’s BAD MARIE is so very very bad that I enjoyed every word. A tour de force in mounting suspense as its witless narrator and the baby she’s stolen careen from one all-too-probable disaster to the next. Delicious.” (Terese Svoboda, author of Cannibal and Pirate Talk or Mermelade)

“By positing a character who’s indulged in all of the deadly sins, Dermansky challenges the reader to finally and forever denounce her character Marie. The fact that this reader can’t is testament to the book’s power and smarts. A naughty pleasure, a philosophical romp, heady hedonism: what could be better?” (Antonya Nelson, author of Nothing Right)

“[BAD MARIE is] sinful in all the right ways, delicate, seditious, and deliciously evil.” (Frederick Barthelme)

“Marcy Dermansky makes it easy to love Marie, a husband-stealing, baby-snatching, underachieving ex-con . . . Fast-paced and unsentimental, BAD MARIE blazes with life.” (Barb Johnson, author of More of This World or Maybe Another)

L'autore:

Marcy Dermansky is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Indiana Review. Dermansky is a film critic for About.com and lives in Astoria, New York.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061914711
• ISBN 13: 9780061914713
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 212