But then I became engrossed by Susan Hayward's portrayal of Barbara Graham, the condemned woman who remains blithe and irreverent even in the face of her own execution. For the first time I recognized, in Hayward's saucy performance, ...
Please Come Back To Me is another remarkable collection by an author the New York Times has called “a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth.” In “The Nurse and the Black Lagoon” a woman tries to understand why her teenage son ...
When we'd exhausted all of our outrage, we shifted gears and talked about what the kids were doing at school. ... after a few minutes, of conceding this particular room to the louder, more animated beauty among us.
He fished one out of his pocket and scribbled his home number on the back. Dorrie took it, but she said, “Forgive me, but what makes you think you — ?” She didn't have to finish, ... “I'm happy for Please Come Back To Me 235.
A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter.
Everybody knew Pete had been sprinkling pot on his Lucky Charms since sixth grade. He was also famous for never looking anybody straight in the eye, which made people nervous. He'd come into the shack to buy cigarettes and munchies for ...
... pieces of physical evidence against Dawn Schutt were hair, fingerprints, and fibers taken from her parents' bedroom, which could have been left there at any time she lived in the house, the grand jury declined to indict her. Though ...