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* 'Wealth, celebrity, sexuality and a tangled web of secrets ...Oh boy, what a mix. And it works . . . It was my first introduction to this writer and I'll be coming back for more (IRISH EXAMINER )
* 'Highly entertaining . . . offers a salutary corrective to the airbrushed picture presented by the Hollywood publicity machine (DAILY MAIL )
* 'A fine piece of writing . . . a powerful talent . . . a tough, poignant book (GUARDIAN )
* '[A] warm, witty and truthful love story . . . (TIME OUT )
* 'Highly entertaining . . . offers a salutary corrective to the airbrushed picture presented by the Hollywood publicity machine (DAILY MAIL )
* 'A fine piece of writing . . . a powerful talent . . . a tough, poignant book (GUARDIAN )
* '[A] warm, witty and truthful love story . . . (TIME OUT )
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* A highly suspenseful and thought-provoking new novel from a writer who is going from strength to strength * 'Stella Duffy gets better and better' Ali Smith
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Parallel Lies is a fast-paced concoction that shoots you straight underneath the drug-fuelled, sex-obsessed Hollywood masquerade and, after a lesson in life skills the Tinsel Town way, gradually reveals the truth behind the layers of deception which the main characters hide behind.
The story's beautifully written, the characters true to life (even if it's a more glamorous life than most of us are used to!) and the plot leads you through a series of twists so subtly that the denouement hits you with all the shock the characters feel in the book.
It's a cracking read, very funny and sad in spots - a twisted love story turned murder mystery with a series of angles that has you wondering at the end what's going to happen to the characters once the book's closed and it's back on the shelf. A study of truth and lies and the perils of ambition.
Highly recommended - I enjoyed it thoroughly. Buy it now, or you'll miss out!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed reading this and previous novels of Stella Duffy's so much I went along to hear her at my local library.
Duffy says her publisher is selling this book as an exploration of our notion of celebrity in today's society, but she's selling it as the story of two lesbians in Hollywood.
She's (deliciously) subverting the crime genre even more than previously: there is a dead body but no obvious come-uppance. She uses the murder story-line to write about the complex personal adult interactions of relationships rather than the romantic first-thrill rush of getting together. As in previous novels, she also examines the lies people tell each other - inside relationships just as much as to the celebrity-hungry outside world.
Format:Paperback
As an American reader I was, at first, a bit put off by the voice/tone of the novel -- despite the first-person narration, it was more distant than I'm used to, but towards the end I decided that either it's because I'm not used to British contemporary writing (I find a lot of the modern British novels I've read lately have this kind of voice, but I admit I have a sample size of about n = 3), or it was a brilliant bit of writing technique. The dispassionate voice was perfectly subversive, and I closed the book feeling like Ms. Duffy had twisted me all around her extremely able writing finger with the ease of that American master of subversive, Mr. Edgar Allen Poe. Having grown up in Southern California I've never been too terribly impressed by celebrity, but have always been impressed by disciplined talent, and I write this review feeling quite taken by the talented Ms. Duffy. I can almost feel the imprints of her fingertips all over my still muddled brain. I highly recommend this book, if for no other reason than to find a reason to laugh at ourselves. To admire, with humor, the twists that life -- and plot -- can take, and how, in the end, we're never as in or as out of control as we'd like to be.
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