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A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
Ron Hansen
Scribner
June 2011
On Sale: June 14, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 1451617550
EAN: 9781451617559
Hardcover
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Fiction | Suspense
From the acclaimed author of Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy
comes a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living
New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a
torrid affair on an arc of murder and sexual self-destruction. Based on a real case whose lurid details scandalized
Americans in 1927 and sold millions of newspapers, acclaimed
novelist Ron Hansen’s latest work is a tour de force of
erotic tension and looming violence. Trapped in a loveless
marriage, Ruth Snyder is a voluptuous, reckless, and
altogether irresistible woman who wishes not only to escape
her husband but that he die—and the sooner the better. No
less miserable in his own tedious marriage is Judd Gray, a
dapper corset-and-brassiere salesman who travels the
Northeast peddling his wares. He meets Ruth in a Manhattan
diner, and soon they are conducting a white-hot affair
involving hotel rooms, secret letters, clandestine travels,
and above all, Ruth’s increasing insistence that Judd kill
her husband. Could he do it? Would he? What follows is a
thrilling exposition of a murder plan, a police
investigation, the lovers’ attempt to escape prosecution,
and a final reckoning for both of them that lays bare the
horror and sorrow of what they have done. Dazzlingly
well-written and artfully constructed, this
impossible-to-put-down story marks the return of an American
master known for his elegant and vivid novels that cut
cleanly to the essence of the human heart, always and at
once mysterious and filled with desire.
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