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Loverboy

Loverboy

Redel, Victoria

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 015600724X
ISBN13: 9780156007245
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jul 25 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the question of what happens when a mother loves her child too much is deeply and darkly explored. Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, it would do to find a passion, Redel's narrator sets out to become a mother--a task she feels she can be adequately passionate about. She conceives her son Paul through a loveless one-night stand, surrounds him with a wonderful, magical world for two--a world filled with books, music, endless games, and bottomless devotion--and calls him pet names like Birdie, Cookie, Puppy, and Loverboy. She wonders, Has ever a mother loved a child more? But as life outside their lace curtains begins to beckon the school-age Paul, his mother's efforts to keep him content in their small world become increasingly frantic and ultimately extreme by all definitions.

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