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Defiance
by Maso, Carole
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- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0452278295
- ISBN 13
- 9780452278295
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About This Item
US: Plume, 1999. Paperback. Good. Bernadette O?Brien: child prodigy'professor of physics at Harvard'sentenced to die in the electric chair for the shocking murder of two male students. In her journal'her "death book" as she calls it?Bernadette takes a dark lo ok back at the unfolding events that led to the extraordinary crime for whi ch she stood trial.Defiance pulls us into the world of a lonely, defiant, b rilliant woman'a misfit child, a girl-genius who left the working class, Ir ish Catholic world of Fall River, Massachusetts'a stone's throw away from C ambridge'who entered the halls of academic privilege at the age of 12, and stayed to rise within its ranks.In the incandescent, erotically charged pro se for which she is known, Maso probes the depths of a female psyche'inextr icably embedded in a uniquely American matrix of sexuality, violence, and t he clash of class difference'as no writer before her has done.' Carole Maso has galvanized audiences across the country and won critical esteem and li terary awards.' Compare Defiance to current hits like A.M. Homes? The End o f Alice, Cronenberg's movie Crash, and Susanna Moore's In the Cut.
Synopsis
Carole Maso , the director of the Creative Writing Department at Brown University, is the author of four novels and a book-length erotic prose poem, all of which have received high critical acclaim. She was the recipient of the 1993 Lannan Literary Fellowship for fiction, as well as numerous other awards. Maso has been profiled in The Washington Post , The New York Times , Poets and Writers , The Village Voice , and others. She splits her time between New York and Providence, Rhode Island.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000051018
- Title
- Defiance
- Author
- Maso, Carole
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0452278295
- ISBN 13
- 9780452278295
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1999
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