Confession (Mira) [Audio Cassette]

Elizabeth Gage (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1999

For years, Rebecca has lived a blameless life of quiet desperation. She is the perfect wife of a man whose wealth and power depend on her silence. She had raised a perfect child, who is now engaged; the young man is everything her parents could wish for--especially Rebecca. She hadn't planned to fall in love, but right and wrong were no match for this passion.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In moody prose, Gage (A Glimpse of Stocking) draws us into the unlived life of Rebecca Lowell. Rebecca dotes on her college-age daughter, Dusty, and endures her womanizing lawyer husband, Damon, but her existence has no real savor. When Dusty's boyfriend, Tony Delafield, admits he has a crush on her, sparks ignite. After Rebecca runs off with her daughter's beau, leaving terse words for Damon and none for Dusty, the girl descends into druggy, affectless sex. As the affair with Tony loses its blinding passion, Catholic-raised Rebecca tries in vain to confess, leaves Tony for widower Sam Bittman and eventually reunites with Dusty, who has been saved by the love of grad student Cameron Burch. Yet Rebecca never finds the peace of absolutionAuntil the violence foreshadowed by the prologue bring events full circle. Like the affair itself, Dusty's forgiveness of Rebecca comes out of the blue; indeed, the motivation for most of the characters is sketchy, and too many pat new relationships occur toward the end of the shallow and facile narrative. But the painful questions Gage asks about the right to live before one dies, at any price, will intrigue readers of popular romances. Author tour.
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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: DH Audio; Unabridged edition (February 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552041646
• ISBN-13: 978-1552041642
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,557,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of money, October 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Confession (Mass Market Paperback)

As a previous Elizabeth Gage fan, I was extremely disappointed by both this and Hourglass. This book has potential, and that is both the meanest and nicest thing I can say about it. Gage likes giving the last scene as the first chapter, and having you guess at the ending, but it is usually a surprise because all the characters have the motivation to do as was detailed. In this book, however, it seemed as if she was just slapping in a character to make it surprising (I won't go into more detail than that).

This book, had it been a few hundred pages longer and involved more insight, would have been good. Unfortunately, she seems to have gotten tired of the plotline (with some good reason), and dropped it before it was quite done. If you really want a book that will stay with you (instead of just a quick read), get her early works instead.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great work of mainstream fiction, April 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Confession (Paperback)

Rebecca Lowell has it all. She has a wealthy, powerful, and ambitious spouse. She owns a beautiful home in an exclusive part of Long Island and a pied a tiere in Manhattan. She possesses more luxurious items than just about any fifty people combined. In spite of all her material possessions, Rebecca is an isolated, lonely person, craving intellectual stimulation.

For many years, Rebecca has successfully sublimated her deepest desires in support of her spouse's high profile legal career and guiding her daughter towards adulthood. However, her image is shattered when her daughter brings home her boy friend, Tony Delafield, to meet her parents. Tony immediately realizes that he is seeing the wrong Lowell woman. Rebecca tries to deny her own feelings, but fails. They ultimately give in to their passion for one another. They run away together, setting in motion a chain reaction that can only end in tragedy for all concerned.

CONFESSION is a parable of the consequences that can arise when a woman only finds self-worth in her relations with other individuals. Elizabeth Gage paints a gritty but fascinating picture of a woman, who for years denies her own needs and feelings until she eventually implodes. Readers who engage a Ms. Gage novel know they are reading a work from a rising star.

Harriet Klausner

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gage Pens a Mediocre read, January 3, 2002

By 

Brendan Munoz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Confession (Mass Market Paperback)

Elizabeth Gage is a writer that I have been slowly reading more and more of lately. I have come to enjoy her writing. Elizabeth Gage mixes mystery, danger, suspense, lush descriptions, and erotic encounters into her writing. The women are detailed right down to their ordinary features, or not so ordinary talents. The men are detailed right down to their habits. It's this attention to detail, and description that can get me entirely lost in her books.

Elizabeth Gage offers in Confession a story about a marriage that was plagued with blatant infidelity, and a complete lack of affection. Although the marriage appears solid and steady, appearances can be deceiving.

Rebecca married Damon two decades and some change ago. They were young and in love, well possibly. Rebecca after twenty years of marriage starts to wonder if it was more love, or stability that brought the two to the altar. Rebecca settles into suburban life, and the facade of keeping appearances up. She doesn't feel beautiful anymore, and certainly doesn't feel loved. Her husband only stirs his passion around in her when he wants to, or when he thinks she might be getting fed up with him.

Rebecca and Damon's daughter Dusty is finally off at college as well. Rebecca doesn't know whether this is a relief to her, or a bad thing. The idea that Dusty is grown and independent makes her proud. The last thing she wants is for Dusty to marry early and for the wrong reasons like she did. But Dusty does bring home Tony, who it seems is the man she wants to marry.

Damon comes home one day and finds Rebecca has disappeared. Damon can't decide what to tell their daughter Dusty. When he finally does tell her that it seems her mother has run off, Dusty has a revelation of her own. This is where the story could have gotten really interesting...well could have!

This wasn't a favorite Elizabeth Gage novel for me, I can't recommend it. Why? Well it was a good read, had some great material to work with but it fell short of my expectations. The prologue pretty much tells you the ending(I know this is common but this one REALLY ruins the story), and makes it even more predictable then ever. Spend your money elsewhere.