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To Die For - Couverture rigide

Maynard, Joyce

 
9780525933960: To Die For
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0525933964 ISBN 13 : 9780525933960
Editeur : Dutton, 1992

Synopsis

Behind her facade of a high achievment, attractive middle-class newlywed Suzanne Maretto nurtures her true desires, which include violent heavy metal music, the manipulation, sexual and otherwise, of teenagers, and murder

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Présentation de l'éditeur

"That's the beauty of television. It's like an eye that's on you all the time . . . Kind of like God, if you want to get heavy" Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a fifteen-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she's ready. Maynard's brilliant, funny, and groundbreaking novel-adapted by Gus Van Sant into the cult classic movie of the same name, starring Nicole Kidman-was first published in 1992 before the era of manufactured stardom and the phenomenon of televised murder trials as entertainment. The book still stands as a razor-sharp satire of celebrity-fixated culture and the American obsession with TV-a novel that imagined the phenomenon of reality television before its creation, with alternately bone-chilling and hilarious accuracy.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joyce Maynard grew up in New Hampshire, and began publishing her work while in her teens. She has been a reporter for the New York Times, a magazine and newspaper columnist, a radio commentator on NPR, and a teacher of writing. Her novel, To Die For, originally published in 1991, was made into an acclaimed film, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Nichole Kidman. Joyce Maynard divides her time between New York City, northern California, and Guatemala.

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Éditeur
Dutton
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0525933964
ISBN 13 
9780525933960
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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