Double Delight by Joyce Carol Oates (1997, Hardcover) - eBay (item 160373889223 end time Nov-05-09 17:28:29 PST)


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Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books

Author:	Rosamond Smith	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Penguin USA	ISBN-10:	0525942998
ISBN-13:	9780525942993	Subject:	Action, Adventure
Publication Year:	1997	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Very Good

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Synopsis
Terence Green is an upper middle-class suburbanite sitting on the jury of the assault case in which Ava-Rose Renfrew is the plaintiff. Ava-Rose draws him into her life, draining him emotionally and financially, and Terence isn't sure how to put an end to her influence on him.
Size
Length:	356 pages
Height:	9.0 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	19.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
The straitjacket of upright respectability and the anarchy of aroused sexual desire are the twin poles of Rosamond Smith's sensational new psychological thriller a master writer's nightmare tale of sweet seduction and heartless corruption that is a s taut as terror. Terence Greene, a man seemingly without flaw or weakness, is a model husband, father, and citizen, with a picture book home in the affluent New Jersey suburbs and an ideal position as director of a great philanthropic foundation. It is while performing his lawful duty as a member of a jury that he first sees exotically beautiful Ava Rose Renfrew. She is testifying against a man accused of brutally assaulting her, and Terence tries to tell himself that he is stirred by her plight and not her person. Naturally, he manipulates his fellow jurors into delivering a verdict supporting her. But his pretense melts like snow in fire when after the trial he makes contact with Ava Rose at the ramshackle house in the rundown neighborhood where she lives. Terence plunges into a searing sexual affair with Ava Rose and enters the intimate circle of her raffish family, whose masks of warm friendliness and hearty vulgarity life in unguarded moments to reveal monstrous manipulations of both his emotions and his bank account. None is more suspect than Ava Rose herself, whose power over Terence grow as his passion becomes obsessive. Soon the little white lies he is telling at home, and the adultery he is committing with Ava Rose, will become the very least of his sins. This riveting, relentless drama of step by step sexual obsession and psychological disintegration moves in a deepening spiral of revelation and violence, with an unexpected ending. Once again Rosamond Smith proves herself a master of literate, intricately plotted suspense fiction. With DOUBLE DELIGHT, she is at the height of her mesmerizing powers.
Industry reviews
"It's a mark of both Smith's unsettling power and its limitations that Terence's wayward obsession is so much stronger and more believable than the shadowy woman who inspires it, or even than Terence himself." Preston

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