In the Cut [Anglais] [Poche]

Several stunning shocks await Moore's longtime readers in her fourth novel. First, there is the change of genre and locale. Her previous books (My Old Sweetheart; The Whiteness of Bones) have been lush, sensitive explorations of coming of age in a dysfunctional family in Hawaii, in an atmosphere permeated by island spirits and traditions. Here, Moore has honed her prose with knife-like precision to construct an edgy, intense, erotic thriller set in bohemian Manhattan. Her protagonist and narrator, Franny, is a divorced NYU professor deliberately closed off from emotional entanglements. She teaches a class for ghetto youth, meanwhile pursuing her obsession with language; she is writing a book recording the street vernacular and the black lingo of New York's seedier neighborhoods. Though on the surface her life seems circumscribed, she is a woman who takes risks, especially sexual risks. One night, she observes a man with a tattoo on his wrist in an act of sexual congress; though she does not see his face, she remembers the red-haired woman who had performed fellatio when she becomes a murder victim. Questioned as a possible witness by homicide detectives James Mallory and his partner Richard Rodriguez, she enjoys the frisson of danger when she takes Mallory as a lover, in spite of the fact that his wrist bears the same tattoo as that of the probable killer. The predatory, slightly corrupt Mallory is a coolly skillful lover, forcing Franny to push beyond sexual barriers into areas she has never explored. But in testing those erotic boundaries, she puts herself in mortal danger. Moore's control of her material is impressive: as she sweeps toward a knockout ending, she employs the gritty vernacular, red-herring clues and cold-blooded brutality of a bona-fide thriller without sacrificing the integrity of her narrative. The question is: will readers be disturbed?and perhaps repelled by?explicit descriptions of sexual acts, scatological language and gruesome violence? 100,000 first printing.
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Billed as an "erotic thriller," Moore's (Sleeping Beauties, LJ 9/1/93) latest is erotic, but it's certainly no thriller. The heroine is an English teacher who muses endlessly on the meanings of language, even at times when she should be experiencing intense emotion. She witnesses an event that leads to a grisly murder and becomes sexually involved with the cop investigating the case. Her closest friend, with whom she discusses sexual experiences in detail, is viciously murdered and mutilated by the same killer, and she herself falls victim, an interesting trick in a story told in the first person. Not only is the heroine distanced by language from her emotions, but so is the reader. Not recommended, although Moore has a following and larger collections may want to have a copy.?Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.
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In Moore's Hollywood-bound noir novel, In the Cut, a New York City detective interrogates Robert Chambers, the real-life "preppie-murderer" who strangled a female acquaintance in Central Park. . . . Franny Thorstin, the narrator, is taken by Malloy, her boyfriend and also a Manhattan detective, into his captain's office in the precinct house, where he has anal intercourse with her against the captain's desk. Afterward the narrator stimulates herself while "he talked to me in a low voice, asking me, no, telling me that I had liked it, I had liked what he did to me, I answering yes, yes, I did, until I came. . . ." The sudden juxtaposition of the two scenes makes the author's moral clear: men either selfishly dominate in the sexual act or their egos go murderously crashing through their sanity. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché .

Kathryn Walker's deliciously seductive voice expertly conveys the dark adventures of a writing professor living alone in New York City. Her lust for language and heightened sexual awareness lure her into a dangerous murder case. The story's themes of death and sex are woven together by the cool certainty of Walker's voice. Listeners are treated to three hours of the aural equivalent of an arched eyebrow, a slight smirk, as Walker takes us into Manhattan's underbelly through the eyes of this strong, solitary woman. R.A.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

A lot of new novels come bearing the publisher's plug "erotic thriller," but most pan out to be limp in both respects! Moore's smashing new novel is billed as such--and lives up to its promotion to the fullest. Taut and tense, sparingly constructed and beautifully written, this seductive story of seductiveness follows a deadly sequence of events in the life of a creative-writing teacher at New York University. One of her students is getting a little too close for comfort, but that's the least of her concerns. A murder has occurred within earshot and view of her Washington Square brownstone, and the investigating officer, when he comes knocking, presents a beguiling situation. Isn't he the man she saw in the basement of a neighborhood bar engaged in a sexual act with the very same young woman whose photo is shown to her as the murder victim? Isn't it fun, then, finding herself falling into an affair with the detective, all the while wondering if he's a bad cop, a murderer, in fact? When her best friend is murdered, the titillating game becomes far more than that. The twist at the end is the perfect cap on a book that will keep you up all hours finishing it. Brad Hooper --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Alors qu'elle sort des toilettes d'un café, Fiona, une jeune universitaire, est témoin des ébats amoureux d'un couple. Quelques heures plus tard, le corps de la femme est retrouvé, sauvagement mutilé. Les deux inspecteurs chargés de l'enquête commencent par suspecter Fiona, dernier témoin à avoir vu vivante la victime. Mais, peu après, agressée en pleine nuit, elle est mise hors de cause. Désormais, Fiona en sait beaucoup. Beaucoup trop... Au point d'être la suivante sur la liste du maniaque qu'elle a surpris --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Moore is so skillful that she turned masochism into a hip form of defiance. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

"Remarkable, erotic, intelligent, and daring."--Vanity Fair

By day, Frannie teaches her writing students about irony and language in all its nuance, eccentricity, and unspoken meaning. By night, she compiles a secret dictionary of street slang . . . and takes chances. One night in the basement of a bar she walks in on an intimate moment between a man and a woman. The man's face is shadowed in the darkness, but she will forever remember the tattoo on the inside of his left wrist; the feeling of his eyes on her. She will remember long after the first brutal murder rocks her neighborhood . . . long after she is propelled into a sexual liaison that tests the limits of her safety and desires, as she begins a terrifying descent into the dark places that reside deep within her. Newly repackaged in its first trade paperback edition, In the Cut is a masterfully written thriller that will keep readers tense with its mounting sense of terror.

"Brilliant. A beautifully crafted story of obsession, sex, violation . . . gut-twisting . . . goes deliberately too far, climaxing in one of the most authentically shocking endings in recent fiction."--The San Francisco Chronicle

After the brutal murder of a woman in her New York City neighborhood, a savvy, strong-willed woman propels herself into a risky sexual liaison and finds herself struggling to cope with both her overwhelming fears and her own dark passions. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Pacy and erotic thriller
Frannie is good-looking, divorced, living alone in New York. She likes being on her own just as much as she likes sex, and she is not afraid to take risks. Then one night she surprises a handsome man with a red-headed woman in the basement of a bar. When the woman is found dead in Frannie's neighbourhood, her private but unsheltered life is overwhelmed with dark suspicions and even darker desires... "A ferociously uninhibited erotic thriller!" New York Times; "Moore has created a striking and memorable heroine: intelligent, brave, watchful and sexually adventurous...a brilliant, pacy, intense, erotic thriller, packed with beautifully observed detail, humming with melancholy" Independent; "Taps into the deep well of female obsession...builds up an atmosphere of thick sexual tension and arranges for its explosive release" New Yorker; "A compulsive page-turner" Guardian --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Née à Hawaii, Susanna Moore vit aujourd'hui à New York. Ex-assistante de Warren Beatty et de Jack Nicholson, elle est l'auteur d'un roman plusieurs fois primé aux EtatsUnis, La Baie des îles (Belfond, 1985). In The Cut a été porté à l'écran par Jane Campion, avec Meg Ryan dans le rôle principal --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Susanna Moore won the Pen/Ernest Hemingway Citation and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for her first novel, My Old Sweetheart. She is also the author of The Whiteness of Bones (Penguin) and Sleeping Beauties. She lives in New York City.