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   The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

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Katherine Adams, June 27, 2008 (view all comments by Katherine Adams)
The first couple of paragraphs of this haunting and curiously uplifting book say more than many authors do in several chapters.

Charlotte, a 16-year-old girl, is raped and carries a child in 1941, but goes unnoticed because her mother died in a fire two weeks earlier. For as she knows, "Tragedy cannot follow so closely on the heels of Tragedy; the Bundt cakes the neighbors bring over must have time to cool."

She becomes mute, and is ostracized by everyone for her sudden inability to talk -- not because of pregnancy, for no one knows that she delivers the baby and leaves it on a tree stump near The House Of Gentle Men, a place where men work off their sins in a most unusual way.

The characters -- all with compelling stories -- are well-conceived; some uncomfortably so. But because of Hepinstall's beautiful phrasing, you'll be startled to discover that this book is indeed a novel of suspense.

As in life, nothing is as it seems in this book. It ends as it begins -- vividly descriptive, leaving the reader in awe.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780380978090

Author:

Hepinstall, Kathy

Publisher:

William Morrow LANGUAGE: eng

Location:

New York :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Louisiana

Subject:

Romance

Subject:

Suspense

Subject:

Psychological fiction

Subject:

Rapists

Subject:

Historical

Copyright:

2000

Edition Number:

1st ed.

Series Volume:

vol. 1

Publication Date:

20000208

Binding:

Trade Cloth

Language:

English

Pages:

352

Dimensions:

8.60x6.13x1.24 in. 1.17 lbs.