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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Dark, shocking, sad & drug fuelled, 13 Nov 2001
By A Customer
Marjorie Standiford awaits her death; mere hours away she is from it, yet she seems at peace, chattering away about her life & the impending termination of it tonight. She is on death row, her execution is tonight & this is her story, dictated to us on a tape recorder, put onto paper for us to read, to put right the wrongs claimed in a book by her ex lover, Natalie. This fictional but 'but it seems so real!' book is about young Marjorie, a mother, wife & daughter being executed for intentionally causing the deaths of innocent Sonic Burger workers. During time in imprisonment for drug charges, Marjorie meets Natalie, an attractive, malicious bi-sexual female. Alone & missing her young son & husband, Marjorie finds comfort in Natalie... and more. A web of lies spun by Natalie convinces Marjorie that her new found friend is alone & need of help and so allows her to move in with herself and her family on their release... A drug deal gone wrong after a raid starts a chain of events that threatens Marjories relationship with Natalie, her son & her husband... Stewart O'nan has created a strange book; one that I am unable to compare to another; he's managed to get inside the head of a serial killer & make us become quite fond of the amphetamine craving girl. The book does not move slowly, yet at a pace where one feels comfortable reading it. Hard to put down & strangely enjoyable; one would almost wish that Natalie had written a book too to see the other side of the story.
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