After awakening from a trance after twenty years, Lana Paluka becomes the focal point for a mystery that began with her near-fatal fall from a cliff two decades earlier. 35,000 first printing.
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Flower child Lana Paluka is the victim of the ultimate bad trip. Back in 1969, the day after she'd come home from the Woodstock festival, she fell off a cliff and lapsed into the 20-year catatonic stupor from which she has just awakened as this riveting novel opens. She learns that her high school sweetheart, Ethan Skitt, accused of having pushed her, was convicted of attempted murder, largely on the eyewitness testimony of schoolmates Randy Slessenger and Alan Wells. As she begins to recover and to regain her memory of the events leading up to the fall, Ethan escapes from prison and starts making his way to her. Is he coming to finish the job, or is he the innocent victim of a frame-up out to set the record straight? Enter Jack Wells, brother of Alan, now a reporter who has landed a book contract to tell Lana's story. Adroitly interweaving these events with '60s flashbacks (and adding an occasional dollop of mysticism) and judiciously pacing her characters' progress toward the shocking truth, Dorf ( A Reasonable Madness ) thoroughly tantalizes. Doubleday Book Club selection; Literary Guild selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Who pushed Lana Paluka off a 200-foot cliff, and how did she manage to survive? Emerging from a 20-year catatonic state, will she be endangered by what she knows? Jack Wells, reporter for the Westchester Herald , knew Lana and her friend Ethan back in 1969. As he begins to investigate her case, skillful flashbacks bring to life his teen memories of Woodstock, hippies, and purple haze. Jack discovers the secret vices and virtues of the friends' intertwined lives and begins to see, hear, and remember from a new perspective. The author of A Reasonable Madness ( LJ 9/1/90) combines mystery, mysticism, and murder in a story whose vivid, believable characters make the reader care about what happens to them. Mystery Book Club and Literary Guild selections.
- Marcia Dorey, Northwest Missouri State Univ. Lib., Maryville
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Marcia Dorey, Northwest Missouri State Univ. Lib., Maryville
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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You don't have to remember the 60's to be captivated by the twists of this book. A great read.
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a unique story line with a lot of twists and turns that merges the modern american time with the sixties in a traumatizing way. fast read, very hard to put down.
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