Love and Other Criminal Behavior
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
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The collection starts with "Georgie Ann" a tale of kept women, betrayal, fake friends, and oh, so much blood. Nikki doesn't pump the breaks before throwing the reader into the ring in "Take the Hit," where Kendra must go back into the boxing ring and throw a fight if she hopes to fulfill her dream of having a family.
In "Sunrise," Nikki takes us to the desert to die. But not before unwinding the lost loves, regrets, and complicated relationships all plaguing one family, as two cousins try to decide whether they'll let their beloved Uncle join his late first wife.
"Our Man Julian" is about a washed-up actor who is cultivating a wild San Diego garden, and a lifetime of loneliness and regret. Hit with the reality that he will die soon with no savings and nothing to offer the daughters he loves but barely sees, he plans an outrageous kamikaze mission. But can a man who's survived it all really turn off that survival instinct?
Love and Other Criminal Behavior will keep your heart pumping fast, right up until it's broken.
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The 13 selections in Dolson's middling first short story collection, two of them previously unpublished, touch on dark themes, but don't explore them in much depth. Brief stories, such as "The Mistress," an account of a mistress intent on confronting her lover in his home with a gun, and "83," about a woman in debt on the run from the man she owes money to, amount to mere vignettes. Even some longer tales feel underdeveloped. For example, "Georgie Ann," which opens with the title character in a coffin being viewed by women who were part of her social circle but weren't really her friends, peters out by the time the cause of death is revealed. Dolson shows what she's capable of in "Our Man Julian," a moving character study in which desperation for money prompts a small-time actor, whose bit roles in movies like Shaft never led to bigger ones, to make a very bad choice. Fans of Dolson's novel, All Things Violent, will hope for better next time.
