Blame

English

ISBN: 0374114307

EAN: 9780374114305

Category: Fiction / Psychological

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 08/20/2011

Synopsis: Starred Review. In this gripping tale, Huneven charts the parameters of guilt and how a young, wisecracking intellectual becomes a shadow of her former self. Patsy MacLemoore, a boozy history professor, is helping her boyfriend, Brice, take care of his niece, Joey, whose mother is undergoing cancer treatment. But when Patsy goes on a bender and emerges from a drunken blackout in jail, she learns shes accused of having run down a mother and daughter in her driveway. After her conviction, Patsy transforms from free spirit into a convict, and Huneven deftly underscores the bizarre trajectory Patsys life has taken. In a prison AA group, Patsy seeks redemption and meaning; she also develops a relationship with the man whose wife and daughter she killed and helps put his son through school, stays the course after her release and maintains a friendship with Brice and Joey. Brilliant observations, excellent characters, spiffy dialogue and a clever plot keep readers hooked, and the final twist turns Patsys new life on its ear. Hunevens exploration of misdeeds real and imagined is humane, insightful and beautiful. (Sept.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null 

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Blame

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.01 inches

Width: 6.42 inches

Length: 9.34 inches

Weight: 17.64 oz

Pages: 304