Facade [Mass Market Paperback]

Roxanne Pulitzer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 29, 1993

"A sex-filled murder mystery."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Kate, Jessie, Sarah, Christine. Four women connected by briliance, talent, and secrets in the wealth, luxury, and privilege of Palm Beach. The knot of lies and deceptions perpetrated over the years now gets tangled tighter and tighter, threatening to strangle them all. Each has a hidden agenda, each has something to hide, and each thrives under a facade of decency. Until they collide, with men and with each other, in a world where lust dominates love, reality crushes dreams, and money reigns supreme. And facades must be maintained at all cost....

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The author of The Prize Pulitzer loads this potboiler with lurid, predictable stories of sex, money and nasty secrets. Sometime in the 1980s four young women with plenty to conceal meet by chance in Palm Beach and spend the rest of the decade in an unholy alliance. Unbridled ambition leads Kate Robinson to manipulate, lie and steal her way from working as a tabloid reporter to writing bestselling books; the well-born Sarah Potter, disinherited after a deadly, cocaine-induced episode of hit-and-run, thirsts for money and uses sex to get it; respectably married Christine Wells hides her past as a London prostitute by striking a sex-for-silence deal with a local entrepreneur; and Jessie Malcolm finds happiness with a married man until her history of childhood sexual abuse takes an overwhelming toll. Despite their obvious needs for privacy, the fatal four become clients of a Hungarian psychic who foresees betrayal and death, the cornerstones of the altogether contrived ending to this heavy-handed exercise. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates; author tour.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

Enjoyed meeting the hard-working, well-bred citizens of Palm Beach in the real-life William Kennedy Smith trial? Want to read even more about these delightful people? Hard-working, well-bred Palm Beach insider and novelist Pulitzer (The Prize Pulitzer, Twins) weaves her imagination together with the tabloid headlines for a tale of four young women let loose in the city of Teddy's Sexy Romp. Altruistic West Palm Beach psychic and police consultant Maria (psychics can't be bothered with surnames) is troubled by the dark visions that swirl whenever she turns her mystical attention to the four young ladies who seek her vision regularly after lunch--women who have bitten off rather more of Palm Beach life than they can chew. Something dreadful is going to happen to either ex-top-of- the-line London prostitute Christine, ex-hit-and-run driver and world-class cocaine-consumer Sarah, ex-journalist and budding plagiarist Kate, or ex-incest and spouse-abuse victim and current adulteress Jessica--but Madame Maria is afraid to look too closely into the too-alarming future to see the details of the impending doom. Pulitzer, however, is not afraid to look too closely into the ever so dramatic pasts of these tanned and trim chums who are being squeezed by the cruel social machinery of Exclusive, Rich, Powerful, Ultradesirable Palm Beach, Florida. Just a hint without giving away the powerful ending: Someone Will Die. O Tempora! O Mores! Au Bar! -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; First Edition edition (December 29, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345381882
• ISBN-13: 978-0345381880
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,887,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story., December 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Facade (Mass Market Paperback)

I finish reading this book in 6 hours straight. It tells a great story of 4 women seeking new life in Palm Beach and how all them from different background eventually become friends.Each of them have their very own secrets,dreams and problems.It tells about the close friendship they share despite knowing each other's history.Although the mystery is vague but it is worth reading. I had never read a book by Roxanne Pulitzer before.But after reading this book, I am looking forward to read her other books.