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Bye-Bye
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Bye-Bye
Author(s): Jane Ransom
She is having three affairs at once: with an S&M pornographer, a beautiful woman found through a personal ad, and a randy heterosexual bartender. Two of her lovers don't know her real name...and that's exactly how she wants it. To escape her past, and perhaps find herself, this smart, troubled, and hilariously cynical young New Yorker is fabricating another identity. As Rose Anne Waldin, or Rosie, she doesn't have a mother who still haunts her, nor an ex-husband who kicked her out after her numerous infidelities. But she does have a new apartment, dyed hair, different clothes -- and an obsession with murder. It is Rosie's intention to break society's taboos, test its limits, push the envelope...and get away with a shocking, perhaps violent, act.
With an intoxicating velocity, Bye-Bye pulls us into the netherworld of the New York performance art scene, the steamy arena of sexual pick-ups and put-ons, and the back alleys of a broken heart. Award-winning first novelist and poet Jane Ransom has created a daring black comedy, a psychological thriller edged with an utterly original class of conundrum. Fearless, erotically charged, and ultimately affirming about the catharsis of fantasy, creativity, and desire, Bye-Bye is a fast, literary, brave new read.
Review(s):
West Coast Review of Books Basic Instinct in book form.
Harry Matthews author of The Journalist and Singular Pleasures The freshest writing about sex since Henry Miller.
Philadelphia City Paper Fun and relentlessly honest...a vibrant humor shines through the book; it's never grim.
Frederick Morgan editor of The Hudson Review A fiendishly funny and sinister shocker.
Publishers Weekly The sex scenes, handled unapologetically and without coyness, are vivid and fresh.
Harry Matthews author of The Journalist and Singular Pleasures The most exciting book of its kind to come along in years. And just what is its kind? That of the quest for truth -- truth as immediate reality, rather than as a relic to be stashed in a savings account. The quest is pursued through the intertwining tangles of love, bisexual eroticism, and perhaps friendship.
Lucy Grealy author of Autobiography of a Face Reading Bye-Bye, I felt driven by the desire to see what would happen next. The protagonist explores some mighty perturbing situations but ultimately, this is a book about "self" and also, more subtly, about bravery, for to view oneself as honestly as his character does requires nothing short of courage.
Frederick Morgan editor of The Hudson Review Jane Ransom is gifted with a sharp eye for telling detail, a keen ear for the twists and turns of colloquial speech, and a wicked wit.
ISBN: 9780671027087
Author(s): Jane Ransom
She is having three affairs at once: with an S&M pornographer, a beautiful woman found through a personal ad, and a randy heterosexual bartender. Two of her lovers don't know her real name...and that's exactly how she wants it. To escape her past, and perhaps find herself, this smart, troubled, and hilariously cynical young New Yorker is fabricating another identity. As Rose Anne Waldin, or Rosie, she doesn't have a mother who still haunts her, nor an ex-husband who kicked her out after her numerous infidelities. But she does have a new apartment, dyed hair, different clothes -- and an obsession with murder. It is Rosie's intention to break society's taboos, test its limits, push the envelope...and get away with a shocking, perhaps violent, act.
With an intoxicating velocity, Bye-Bye pulls us into the netherworld of the New York performance art scene, the steamy arena of sexual pick-ups and put-ons, and the back alleys of a broken heart. Award-winning first novelist and poet Jane Ransom has created a daring black comedy, a psychological thriller edged with an utterly original class of conundrum. Fearless, erotically charged, and ultimately affirming about the catharsis of fantasy, creativity, and desire, Bye-Bye is a fast, literary, brave new read.
Review(s):
West Coast Review of Books Basic Instinct in book form.
Harry Matthews author of The Journalist and Singular Pleasures The freshest writing about sex since Henry Miller.
Philadelphia City Paper Fun and relentlessly honest...a vibrant humor shines through the book; it's never grim.
Frederick Morgan editor of The Hudson Review A fiendishly funny and sinister shocker.
Publishers Weekly The sex scenes, handled unapologetically and without coyness, are vivid and fresh.
Harry Matthews author of The Journalist and Singular Pleasures The most exciting book of its kind to come along in years. And just what is its kind? That of the quest for truth -- truth as immediate reality, rather than as a relic to be stashed in a savings account. The quest is pursued through the intertwining tangles of love, bisexual eroticism, and perhaps friendship.
Lucy Grealy author of Autobiography of a Face Reading Bye-Bye, I felt driven by the desire to see what would happen next. The protagonist explores some mighty perturbing situations but ultimately, this is a book about "self" and also, more subtly, about bravery, for to view oneself as honestly as his character does requires nothing short of courage.
Frederick Morgan editor of The Hudson Review Jane Ransom is gifted with a sharp eye for telling detail, a keen ear for the twists and turns of colloquial speech, and a wicked wit.
ISBN: 9780671027087