- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Minerva; New edition edition (5 Feb 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099268183
- ISBN-13: 978-0099268185
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,357,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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By the author of "Life-Size". All Christine wanted was a one-night stand, no complications to interfere with her career as a successful attorney. But ten months later, trapped in a relationship of obsessive intensity, she stands accused of a hideous crime.
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Format:Paperback
Brutal, brilliant, beautifully rendered and utterly believable story of an older woman's destructive and dangerous relationship with a younger man. As exposing and unsparing as Life-Size, again told by an unreliable narrator who keeps the reader guessing as to the extent and nature of her crime and her passion, until the very end. Shute is a master storyteller and this proves that, even more than Life-Size did.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I loved Jenefer Shute's previous book, Lifesize. However this one is so graphic in its description of the injuries perpetrated by the central character that it gave me nightmares. If you don't mind being sickened that's fine - but this book is nothing like Lifesize.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Saga of Sexual Obsession
6 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
The story of Christine Chandler, thirty-eight year-old lawyer, graduate of Harvard, a woman whose conspicuousness and facade of clear-minded control keeps everyone, even friends, from discovering her destructive love affair with a much younger man. Scott DeSalvo, twenty-six years-old, is a magazine photographer, indolent, ignorant, and "raised on MTV". However, Scott also has a temper and when things do not go Scott's way, his anger transforms into passionate rage. The relationship was initially based on the mutual, unemotional grounds of fulfilling sexual needs in both parties. Yet merely ten months after she meets him, Christine is facing charges with a horrible crime of mutilation, an act so repugnant she is now known as the "Boston Fury" and attracting national renown.
We hear the novel in the aftermath of the assault as Christine, who pleads guilty to her actions, is attempting to gather wisps of memory together to assist her prominent feminist defense attorney. She chronicles the aberrating events that led from a one-night stand to a sadomasochistic gratification to a murderous and insane jealousy. The book gives information punctuated with the depositions and testimonies of her aghast friends and colleagues, cold and unsympathetic parents, and the articles and transcripts of talk shows and tabloid magazines, who are having a field-day with the story of a woman who had it all, but whose emotional melt-down froze to an icy rage.
This book was a wonderful read. I enjoyed the wry and offbeat humor of Shute's Christine and could recognize her style emulating that of previous works without repeating. Although this book can be provocative due to its sexual deviance, you can really empathize and appreciate this tale of a woman who bears the knowledge that she has committed a crime, yet leaves the reader wondering if she is ever really guilty of it at all.
Sex Crimes is the second novel of author Jenefer Shute, ensuring that after her substantial debut with Life-Size, she is more than just a one-night stand of an author. I look forward to reading much more of her future writing.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Smart, literate, sexy mystery novel.
26 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
Normally I hate mystery novels -- mostly because their authors draw character too crudely and exaggerate for emphasis. But this novel is different. Like Donna Tartt's "The Secret History," it's a mystery driven by character rather than plot -- yet the mystery is still so gripping that you can't put it down. Although the central events of the story are pretty simple, I'm rereading it now because the story -- though much more plausible than most mysteries -- remains elusive.
Another book I would compare it to is Susanna Moore's "In the Cut." Like that book, it has sensationalistic elements, but like "In the Cut," it treats these elements with intelligence and detachment.
Finally, it also reminded me of Kathryn Harrison's "Exposure" in its experimentation with a painful narrative about obsession from different "sources", including clinical reports, news stories, and other "official" sources.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great read
5 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
I started reading this book to fill in some time while I couldnt sleep last night. Now having the day off read the whole book. I literally couldnt put it down. I had to know what happened and what was going to happen. This is a great book. Very interesting and it keeps you guessing on the edge of your seat!!!!! I'd like recommend this book to everyone!!! It was well worth my day!!!!!!!!!!!!
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