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With or Without You
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ISBN13: 9781888451696
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Mar 1 2005
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
[Sanders's] vibrant, vigorous second novel is a sendup of America's obsession with pop culture, B-list celebrities, and prison life . . . In lyrical, potent prose, Sanders navigates the terrain of loneliness, obsession and desperation with the same skillful precision as her vulnerable, calculating protagonist. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
[A] wickedly crafted whydunit . . . Sanders shows a surprising ability to simultaneously make you feel infuriated with and sorry for her borderline-schizo heroine. A- --Entertainment Weekly
Summer 1987. Lillian Ginger Speck, high school graduate, sits in her jail cell contemplating the steps and missteps that led her to murder soap opera star Brooke Harrison in cold blood one bright and muggy New York afternoon. Lily had admired the young star for some time, and her loss is palpable. Her story is therefore part apologia, part love note and suicide pact. Meanwhile, Brooke Harrison's mother has a tale of her own to tell. In this edgy and compelling whydunit, the accounts of predator and victim intertwine. The result is a wry exploration of the contemporary American melting pot of status, beauty, celebrity, violence, and obsession.
With or Without You combines the aching adolescent heart of The Catcher in the Rye with the dark suburban soul of The Great Gatsby--set against the starstruck voyeurism of American Idol. This book asks the quintessentially American question: Is life worth living if you can't be famous?
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