Synopses & Reviews
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Award-winning novelist Lauren Sanders offers a story about the isolation and loneliness of adolescence and the neglectand#151;benign as it may beand#151;of the familial, cultural, and political institutions that are supposed to provide some sort of and#147;support system.and#8221;
Lauren Sanders is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York City. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Kamikaze Lust (Akashic, 2000), won a 2001 Lambda Literary Award. Sandersand#8217;s writing has appeared in many publications including the American Book Review, Poets and Writers, and Time Out New York.
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Sanders has a great ability to describe and create characters that seem to breathe; they exist believably in reality and fantasy.
Bust Magazine
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In Sanderss hands, what is usually cliché or gratuitous is hot. Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls
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Sanders has a great ability to describe and create characters that seem to breathe; they exist believably in reality and fantasy.
Bust Magazine
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In Sanderss hands, what is usually cliché or gratuitous is hot.
Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls
Synopsis
Summer 1987. Lillian Ginger Speck, high-school graduate, sits in her jail cell contemplating the steps and missteps that led her to murder soap opera star Brooke Harrison in cold blood one bright and muggy New York afternoon. Lily had admired the young star for some time, and her loss is palpable. Her story is therefore part apologia, part love note and suicide pact. Meanwhile, Brooke Harrisons mother has a tale of her own to tell. In this edgy and compelling whydunit,the accounts of predator and victim intertwine. The result is a wry exploration of the contemporary American melting pot of status, beauty, celebrity, violence, and obsession.
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In Sanders s hands, what is usually cliche or gratuitous is hot. Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls
Award-winning novelist Lauren Sanders offers a story about the isolation and loneliness of adolescence and the neglectbenign as it may beof the familial, cultural, and political institutions that are supposed to provide some sort of support system.
Lauren Sanders is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York City. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Kamikaze Lust (Akashic, 2000), won a 2001 Lambda Literary Award. Sanders s writing has appeared in many publications including the American Book Review, Poets & Writers, and Time Out New York.
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" Sanders's] vibrant, vigorous second novel is a sendup of America's obsession with pop culture, B-list celebrities, and prison life . . . In lyrical, potent prose, Sanders navigates the terrain of loneliness, obsession and desperation with the same skillful precision as her vulnerable, calculating protagonist." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
" A] wickedly crafted whydunit . . . Sanders shows a surprising ability to simultaneously make you feel infuriated with and sorry for her borderline-schizo heroine. A-" --Entertainment Weekly
Summer 1987. Lillian Ginger Speck, high school graduate, sits in her jail cell contemplating the steps and missteps that led her to murder soap opera star Brooke Harrison in cold blood one bright and muggy New York afternoon. Lily had admired the young star for some time, and her loss is palpable. Her story is therefore part apologia, part love note and suicide pact. Meanwhile, Brooke Harrison's mother has a tale of her own to tell. In this edgy and compelling "whydunit," the accounts of predator and victim intertwine. The result is a wry exploration of the contemporary American melting pot of status, beauty, celebrity, violence, and obsession.
With or Without You combines the aching adolescent heart of The Catcher in the Rye with the dark suburban soul of The Great Gatsby--set against the starstruck voyeurism of American Idol. This book asks the quintessentially American question: Is life worth living if you can't be famous?
Synopsis
Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. Lauren Sanders follows up her award-winning debut novel, KAMIKAZE LUST, with this "hot poetic book I wouldn't kick out of bed"--Eileen Myles. WITH OR WITHOUT YOU combines the aching adolescent heart of The Catcher in the Rye with the dark suburban soul of The Great Gatsby-set against the the starstruck voyeurism of American Idol. This book asks the quintessentially American question: Is life worth living if you can't be famous?
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A lonely teenage girl takes the life of a soap opera actress she's been enamored with.
About the Author
Lauren Sanders is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York City. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Kamikaze Lust (Akashic, 2000) won a 2001 Lambda Literary Award. Sanders?s writing has appeared in publications including the American Book Review, Poets and Writers, and Time Out New York. She is coeditor of the anthology Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since Kinsey, published by Persea Books in 1998. She is a graduate of Columbia University's school of journalism and has an MA in Creative Writing from City College in New York.