**From the acclaimed author of _Atticus_ and _Mariette in Ecstasy_ comes a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a torrid affair on an arc of murder and sexual self-destruction.** Based on a real case whose lurid details sca
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
β Scribed by Hansen, Ron
- Book ID
- 109039017
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781451617559
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β¦ Synopsis
"Once again, Ron Hansen has proved that he has no peer in the writing of fiction about biographical characters. No one writing today is better at re-creating the past than Hansen, and no one gives better insight into his characters. In this instance, Ron Hansen re-creates the Roaring Twenties with a sense of immediacy and authenticity that I haven't seen since the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. James M. Cain once said that the greatest of human tragedies usually takes place when people get what they want. That's the story we find in A WILD SURGE OF GUILTY PASSION. Could this happen to us, we ask ourselves. The question is a haunting one. Ron Hansen takes us into the heart of America, and the journey never allows us to stop turning the page." βJames Lee Burke βA Wild Surge of Guilty Passion is by turns blackly comic, irresistibly seductive, and implacably devastating. As a tour of the Seven Deadly Sins, itβs pretty much unsurpassed in recent literature.β
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