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Title: Last Dance, Last Chance by Ann Rule ISBN: 0-671-02535-X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Inside the mind of a sociopath...
Comment: Ann Rule has penned a real-life monster story with "Last Dance, Last Chance." Here she tells the story of Doctor Anthony Pignataro, the son of a prominent Buffalo, NY surgeon, who lacked any of the gifts his father had. He masked his insecurity and incompetence with a veneer of arrogance and attitude that alienated most of those around him. In fact the only person besides his mother to stand by him through years of failed attempts to finish a medical residency program was his wife Debbie.
Not only was Tony Pignataro crude, rude and offensive to most people, but he showed little true affection for his family unless he needed something from them. In fact, he was a philandering husband, caught in at least two affairs by his long-suffering wife.
Pignataro ventured into cosmetic surgery after inventing a permanent hairpiece that attached to the skull via titanium implants. He made a fortune doing this procedure along with the occasional breast implantation and tummy tuck in his understaffed office. His poor work habits ultimately had deadly consequences when a young woman died during a routine breast augmentation procedure.
As a result, Pignataro lost his medical license and his practice, developed a heroin habit and continued an affair with a stripper named Tami, whom he decided to make a new life with as soon as he could dispose of his wife. He attempted to do so during a brief reconciliation period.
His plans went awry when Debbie survived the massive poisoning, and with the tests proving she was poisoned, investigators soon focused on Tony as their lead suspect. This is a chilling tale of a conscienceless killer who had everything going for him and trashed it all through his own greed and lust for adoration.
This is another testament as to why Ann Rule is the best at her craft.
Rating: 3
Summary: Debbie a Victim?
Comment: Well written and interesting...but the main "victim" Debbie, comes off more like an accomplice, than the Angel that Ms. Rule intended for her to appear like. So much rang false for me.
Rating: 1
Summary: Witness of the real story
Comment: I read this story, but more importantly I witnessed this story as it unfolded. As a friend of the family, I saw this devastating story firsthand. And while I think Ann Rule does a great job of telling "a story", a story is what it is. It is based on facts, but yet she only tells it from one point of view, Debbie Pignataro's. (Nevermind that Debbie was gratuitously compensated for these efforts.) She never seems to mention the equally physchotic and unstable nature of Debbie herself, the multiple times she attempted to commit sucide nor the fact that Anthony was never proven to have poisoned her (and while nobody but them knows the truth, it is possible that she again was trying to end her own life). There was no trial and his guilt was put forth as a result of an unusual deal given by the DA which evolved out of strange circumstances. If there was clear and convincing evidence, surely the DA would have went forth with the grandour of a trial and all the acclaims that would have followed. Nor does Ann mention the numerous times in which Debbie has spoken to Anthony since he has been in jail or the love that she still professes for him.
Buffalo is a small town and its circles of what Ann Rice calls "affluent" people are even smaller, a story like this is a new channels dream and a police departments's opportunity to shine. The truth is that there are doctors like Anthony everywhere, inadequately trained in a field, overly confident and unmonitored, even as a friend of the family, I will not disagree with those accusations. In a big city a story like this may have made the middle page of a local paper or a six second slot on the evening news, but here it was like a soap opera. And the drama countinues...
Read the book, enjoy the story, but remember that it is a story, written and crafted to entice the readers... it is not a equally sided factual account of what happened; for many of those answers we will never know. Anthony certainly has his faults and I can understand from reading this book, where they are maginifed, how readers may hate him... just remember "it takes one to know one" and Debbie is not who the book portrays her to be either.
In the end just remember these are real people with real families and while everyone is entitled to their opinions, just imagine if it had happened to your brother and his wife or even better your son/daughter and his/her family. Debbie and Anthony ruined their own lifes and that they were entitled to do, but just don't forget all the lives that were ruined on the sidelines... their two amazing kids, their parents and their friends and families. These people should never be critisized for their involvement because all they did was love and support them, which is what we would all hope for if ever we found ourselves in trouble.
If you are looking for a one-sided story, this book is for you. If you are looking for a truthful story that depicts a situation accurately keeping looking. If you are looking for a book to entertain you and you like "trash" reading, this may be for you!
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Title: Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death by Ann Rule ISBN: 0743202988 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Lust Killer by Ann Rule, Andy Stack ISBN: 0451166876 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Every Breath You Take : A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder by Ann Rule ISBN: 0743439740 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule, Andy Stack ISBN: 0451166884 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED by Ann Rule ISBN: 067169071X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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