Defiance

Bernadette OBrien: child prodigy'professor of physics at Harvard'sentenced to die in the electric chair for the shocking murder of two male students. In her journal'her "death book" as she calls itBernadette takes a dark lo ok back at the unfolding events that led to the extraordinary crime for whi ch she stood trial.Defiance pulls us into the world of a lonely, defiant, b rilliant woman'a misfit child, a girl-genius who left the working class, Ir ish Catholic world of Fall River, Massachusetts'a stone's throw away from C ambridge'who entered the halls of academic privilege at the age of 12, and stayed to rise within its ranks.In the incandescent, erotically charged pro se for which she is known, Maso probes the depths of a female psyche'inextr icably embedded in a uniquely American matrix of sexuality, violence, and t he clash of class difference'as no writer before her has done.' Carole Maso has galvanized audiences across the country and won critical esteem and li terary awards.' Compare Defiance to current hits like A.M. Homes The End o f Alice, Cronenberg's movie Crash, and Susanna Moore's In the Cut.

Product Info

ISBN: 0452278295

ISBN-13: 9780452278295

Publisher: Plume

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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