Sin
by Josephine Hart
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Author: Josephine HartEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-05-29
ISBN: 0804110972
Publisher: Ivy Books
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Book Review: Avoid.
Summary: 1 Stars
If you read Damage and want to retain any admiration you may have developed for Josephine Hart, you must avoid this disastrous second novel. "Sin" is so bad it's impossible to catalog the mistakes. It reads like a parody of Damage, which dealt with sex and scandal without being melodramatic. By contrast, Sin is a TV miniseries; there's even a character named "Dominick" and a mansion named "Lexington." The confessional, first-person narration - so effective in Damage - doesn't work in Sin, maybe because the narrator is the villain and there are no unanswered questions, only a nasty woman trying to find ever-more extreme adjectives to describe herself and how good she looks in various dresses. The sex scenes are almost unreadable; the narrator soothes her lover "using breasts and thighs" and similar rot. To top it off, Hart models her finale closely after the ending she used in Damage, forgetting, however, the sense of tragedy she crafted so well in the earlier book. What can I say? I can't recall ever being so disappointed by a second novel.
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