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Title: Mapping the Edge : A Novel by Sarah Dunant ISBN: 0-375-75861-5 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A psychological novel aboul love, loneliness and betrayal.
Comment: "Mapping the Edge" is a disturbing novel about a woman in crisis. Anna is a single parent who is devoted to her six-year-old daughter, but she still feels a deep void in her life. The book centers around Anna's disappearance during a trip to Italy. Anna's friends, Paul and Stella, look after Lily during her mother's absence, but Anna has not returned when she was expected. As the days pass, Anna's friends fear that something has happened to her. Has she been abducted or is she staying away voluntarily for reasons of her own? In a series of chapters that move back and forth in time and place, the author explores Anna's past and the way that it intersects with her present life. Dunant's sensitive dialogue and psychological insights expose Anna's fear and vulnerability. "Mapping the Edge" is an engrossing novel of suspense that shows how modern women struggle to have it all, but must often settle for much less.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bedtime readers, beware -- but it's worth it.
Comment: Anna Franklin's "strategy for revitalization" involves an impulsive trip to Florence, Italy where she expects to rendezvous with her recently acquired part-time lover. Anna goes missing, and back home in London, those closest to her -- Paul, loyal friend and surrogate father to Anna's daughter Lily, aged six, and Estella, her long-time best friend -- are becoming increasingly anxious, worried -- and puzzled. "Mapping the Edge" is both a suspense story and a study of relationships. As a suspense story, the author borrows a premise used so effectively in some of Hitchcock's films: The innocent caught in the web of the villain's machinations; the dupe ensnared by the duper. On another level, the book explores relationships: between women and men, women and women, men and men, adults and children, the victim and the victimizer. Author Dunant accomplishes all this by filling the reader's plate with a clever device: two scenarios of what might have happened to Anna. In this author's hands, it is done skillfully and entertainingly, and the resolutions are plausible. If you're a bedtime reader, expect a late night when the engaging mixture of a suspenseful plot and intriguing characters seduces you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dunant Maps New Boundaries For The Psychological Thriller!
Comment: Sarah Dunant interweaves taut parallel narratives that explore the intricacies of motherhood, friendship, love, accountability and obsession in this dark, gripping novel. There are a few mysteries to be found between the pages here, not the least is how well do we really know those close to us, let alone ourselves.
Ms. Dunant delivers two different versions of the plot. What happens to Anna Franklin? She is thirty-nine, very attractive, "pretty was always too tame a word," a single mother and journalist, who goes for a short vacation to Italy, leaving her six-year-old daughter with friends in London. When she does not return, her friends are justifiably alarmed, but knowing Anna's reliability they invent rational reasons for her continued absence - until it becomes apparent that she may never return.
The two different accounts of Anna's adventures are cleverly interwoven with the narrative of what occurs at home with the daughter and friends who wait, as we wait, to discover just what is going on. The author also takes us on a journey into Anna's past to further develop her character. This chilling novel promises answers but never really delivers. Ms. Dunant's writing is taut and suspenseful. She is a three time finalist for the Golden Dagger Award. This is a novel you won't be able to put down - an engrossing read!
JANA
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Title: A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant ISBN: 037541181X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Transgressions by Sarah Dunant ISBN: 0060392487 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier ISBN: 0525947671 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell ISBN: 0142000329 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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