The Deep End (Signet) [Paperback]

Joy Fielding (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2, 1987 | Series: Signet

From the New York Times bestselling author of See Jane Run comes the ultimate tale of domestic terror. Joanne's husband leaves her, and her best friend becomes a stranger. Just when Joanne thinks it can't get any worse, the phone calls begin. "You've been a bad girl . . . I'm going to kill you." Reissue.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Fielding (Kiss Mommy Goodbye explores the seemingly inexorable disintegration of a middle-aged Long Island woman's life in this chilling, suspenseful tale. Subservient, self-deprecating Joanne Hunter suddenly becomes inundated by traumas. First, her husband moves out of their house to slake his restlessness and dissatisfaction. Stunned by his abrupt departure, Joanne seeks support from her best friend and neighbor, psychology professor Eve Stanley, but Eve now suffers from some unidentified illness which she believes is fatal. Eve frantically insists that debilitating pains wrack her body, although her husband tells Joanne that they are psychosomatic ailments. While these crises unfold, senility plagues Joanne's beloved grandfather, and her two adolescent daughters bicker incessantly. Most unnerving of all are the inexplicable threatening phone calls that Joanne receives at the same time that someone dubbed "the Suburban Strangler" terrorizes Long Island. Fielding neatly delineates Joanne's fear, loneliness, and the courage with which she confronts her problems. Paperback rights to NAL; Doubleday Book Club dual main selection; Reader's Digest Condensed Books selection; Literary Guild alternate.
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Review

"Fielding has made the woman-in-jeopardy genre her own."
--People

"Fielding knows how to turn the screws of suspense."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

New York Times bestselling author of Missing Pieces --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Signet (June 2, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451157796
• ISBN-13: 978-0451157799
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Joy Fielding is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Still Life, Charley's Web, Heartstopper, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must for fans of suspense!, December 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Deep End (Signet) (Paperback)

A woman living separated from her husband, not sure whether she really wants this...a best friend who might not be so good after all...and a telephone that won't stop ringing - these are the main ingredients Ms. Fielding uses to create a book you won't forget. It was my first Fielding novel, I was still a teenager, and it got me hooked to her novels forever. A little anecdote to go with this: I lost the book shortly after having read it among my Mother's 1000 (!) books and as I had forgotten its title (thou not the author's name) I couldn't re-buy it. A few years later I spotted the novel in a dep store, recognized it by the text on the back cover - and BOUGHT IT ON THE SPOT! Definitely one of the best bools I ever laid hands on.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ***DO NOT READ REVIEW FROM AUGUST 24, 2000***, August 27, 2005

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Reade (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deep End (Signet) (Paperback)

The purpose of the present post is to caution those reading reviews of Fielding's "The Deep End" against one, in particular: "A DECENT BOOK", written by "A CUSTOMER" on 8/24/00... it contains a massive spoiler!

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Edit(5 years later): Really, Amazon?? You still haven't deleted that review?! Netflix does a better job protecting its members from spoilers! Thankfully, I tend to read books *before* reading reviews; however, for you normal people who read reviews first, I will leave my original post.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read-A+! Fielding Does it Again!, November 18, 2004

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J. Kirkman "book jen" (St. Petersburg, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Deep End (Hardcover)

I really have enjoyed all of Joy Fielding's books, and this is one of the older ones I really had fun reading!!

Joanne, the main character of the story is a housewife raising 2 girls. She and her husband Paul have temporarily separated, and Joanne would like nothing more than to get back together again.

Along with everything else though, is these scary obscene phone calls that Joanne has been getting over and over again. This caller keeps telling her to read the morning paper, page 13, where a woman was cut to pieces. As the calls go on, Joanne is terrified, but nobody believes her. The last person to believe Joanne is her best friend Eve, who lives next door and has her own set of problems it seems. Eve is battling many different types of ailments that the doctors don't know what it is. And as time goes along further, Eve gets to acting a little stranger each and every day.

Joanne begins to wonder what is really going on with her best friend, and tries to put what is really going on together between the phone calls, and Eve's strange actions. What she discovers might be surprising, but she may be fighting for her life.