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A glimpsed blowjob in a backroom of a seedy New York bar, the last act of a red-haired woman found murdered and dismembered only hours later, opens Susanna Moore's fourth novel set in blue-collar New York. Where another author - Richard Price would be at home in the bars and precinct houses of this novel - would have highlighted the maleness of the murder, this narrative is interwoven with other concerns; through Frannie, a white middle-class English teacher, Moore explores the inadequacy of language, the dark power of erotic fixation over intelligence, the unknowableness of others. It is as if a Martin Scorcese project starring Joe Mantegna has been given to Jane Campion to interpret, with all the attendant subversions of the genre that might entail.
Approximate Word count = 440
Approximate Pages = 1.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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