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| | Amazon.com: To Die for: Books: Joyce Maynard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | There's Jimmy Emmet, who worships her as stupidly as does her hapless restaurant-family husband Larry; Russell Hines, who's just in it for the thousand dollars; and Lydia Mertz, who's so hopelessly smitten with Suzanne's big-sister glamour that she's willing to supply the gun. |
 | | But the real culprits, as bestselling author/media-child Maynard (Baby Love, 1981; Domestic Affairs, 1987, etc.) keeps screaming in an amusingly flat series of self-revealing monologues, are Malibu Barbie, Victoria's Secret, Wheel of Fortune, abusive (or adoring) parents, and Donahue--all the accoutrements of cut-rate acculturation that give her characters such venal dreams and mindless determination. |
 | | For example, she videotapes the kids hanging out at her house after her husband is killed; she has sex with the young boy while the girl waits downstairs. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451186079?v=glance (1468 words) |
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