· From Pulp Serenade: "Cruel Poetry" by Vicki Hendricks (Seprent's Tail, ) Vicki Hendricks’ earlier novels excelled at capturing single protagonists caught in insatiable and increasingly tightening vices. The protagonists of Miami Purity, Iguana Love, Voluntary Madness and Sky Blues all wanted a euphoric kick to jumpstart their dull lives—and they got it www.doorway.ru: Ed Gorman. · With open arms, they welcomed sex, thrills, danger, and murder. Hendricks’ fifth novel, the Edgar-nominated Cruel Poetry, stands amongst her most sophisticated and complex works to date. Hendricks has expanded her view to encompass three narrators whose lives, desires, and crimes are intertwined into a thick knot of noir that can’t be www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. “Cruel Poetry opens with a sex scene as hot as the scorching Florida sun and grips as tightly as the heroine’s pet python. Strap yourself in for another rollercoaster ride of sexual obsession and perversion from Vicki Hendricks, reigning queen of American noir.” — Lauren Henderson.
Pg. Vicki Hendricks's "Cruel Poetry". The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Vicki Hendricks 's, Cruel Poetry. Renata is young, beautiful, and enjoys sex for money and kicks. Few are immune to her intoxicating allure - even her pet Burmese python, Pepe, seems captive to her charm. Richard, a poetry professor with a wife and two sons. Earlier Praise for Hendricks "A fierce and fearless talent"—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River "Redneck women find a voice for the ages in Hendricks' simple yet searing first novel [Miami Purity]"--Publishers Weekly"It's so rare to encounter the real thing these days that when you do, as in Hendricks' sledgehammer of a first novel [Miami Purity], the effect is all the more. Cruel Poetry|Vicki Hendricks, Surgical Pathology of the Mediastinum|Mamoru Kaneko, Interact: A Social Skills Game|Harper Holly Love, The English Revolution: Politics, Events, Ideas (Variorum Collected Studies Series)|Perez Zagorin.
“I never miss a book by Vicki Hendricks. No one on the current scene is writing supercharged, erotic, real noir novels like these.”--George P. Pelecanos “ Cruel Poetry opens with a sex scene as hot as the scorching Florida sun and grips as tightly as the heroine’s pet python. Strap yourself in for another rollercoaster ride of sexual obsession and perversion from Vicki Hendricks, reigning queen of American noir.”. Well, Kinky I’ve read, and now Kem Nunn and Dan Woodrell (who is very good), so when I found Vicki Hendricks’ Cruel Poetry in Dymocks I was well pleased. Cruel Poetry is full of sex and death, but it never seems to be sleazy or obsessively violent. Perhaps this is because the prose is clean and clear and the blood and pain is a natural and inevitable consequence of the action and of the characters’ interactions with each other. With open arms, they welcomed sex, thrills, danger, and murder. Hendricks’ fifth novel, the Edgar-nominated Cruel Poetry, stands amongst her most sophisticated and complex works to date. Hendricks has expanded her view to encompass three narrators whose lives, desires, and crimes are intertwined into a thick knot of noir that can’t be undone.
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