Ferociously paced, "Terminal Velocity" delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie. At the center of this vortex is Ellen, prior to her transformation happily married and a rising young editor at a genteel publishing house in Boston. Together with these women, she is caught in the political and moral tailspin of the Sixties, living in a sexualized world-without-boundaries that leads them, eventually, to destruction, acceptance, and even redemption.
Blanche Mccrary Boyd Boeken
Blanche McCrary Boyd staat bekend om haar romans vol excentrieke personages. Haar werk onderscheidt zich door een unieke stem en diepgang die lezers meeslepen in rijk vormgegeven werelden.
