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This novel portrays a teenage girl who, attacked by violent evil, chooses not to flee it but to face it, and then to embrace it. It explores the effects of male force and brutality on women and the issue of women's complicity in sexual violence.
Winner of TriQuarterly's 1994 William Goyen prize for fiction, this powerful debut novel explores the hidden niches of cruelty, lust, political corruption and misogyny. Narrator Libby Martin, daughter of a state senator, is 15 when she receives an anonymous obscene letter threatening her with rape and mutilation. The missive changes her life and her perceptions of her family and friends. In a course of painful discoveries, she confronts her father's duplicitous adulteries, her mother's frustrated obsessions with order and cleanliness and a friend's betrayal of trust and loyalty. Finally, in a violent and sexually graphic conclusion, she gains a form of empowerment. With perfectly pitched dialogue and a story grounded in details of contemporary manners and mores-from rock music to sexual harassment in the political arena-Lewis's shattering study of sexual violence and individual vulnerability is both timely and universally resonant. (Sept.)
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Jackson Nash
reviewed Private Correspondences on May 17, 2007
Private Correspondences
Alright book with stories of different scams at the beginning of the 20th century in the USA.
Whole book can be found here:
Some nice quotes:
"that in all my illegitimate inroads against the legal letter of the law the article sold must be existent, visible, producible. In that way and by a careful study of city ordinances and train schedules I have kept out of all trouble with the police that a five dollar bill and a cigar could not square."
"There are two kinds of graft," said Jeff, "that ought to be wiped out by law. I mean Wall Street speculation, and burglary." "Nearly everybody will agree with you as to one of them," said I, with a laugh. "Well, burglary ought to be wiped out, too," said Jeff;
"In my line of business," said Jeff, "the hardest thing is to find an upright, trustworthy, strictly honorable partner to work a graft with. Some of the best men I ever worked with in a swindle would resort to trickery at times.
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