Bad Marie: A Novel

Name: Bad Marie: A Novel
Rating: 3.555555582046509 (9 reviews)

Marcy Dermansky

Jun 2010 · Sold by Harper Collins

9 reviews

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About this ebook

“Reading Marcy Dermansky’s Bad Marie is like spending a rainy afternoon in a smaller, older movie theater watching a charming French movie with a woman (or a man) you’ve just met on the street and already like far too much. It’s sinful in all the right ways, delicate, seditious, and deliciously evil.” — Frederick Barthelme

“Dermansky excels at depicting extreme emotional states and how we rationalize them.” —Village Voice

From the critically-acclaimed author of Twins, Marcy Dermansky, comes a highly original novel of Manhattan, Paris, and Mexico; of love and motherhood; and of life on the lam. Fans of Heather O’Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals) and A.M. Homes (Music for Torching) will revel in the wicked delights of Bad Marie.

Ratings and reviews

9 reviews

A Google user

August 15, 2011

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was a quick read and kept me entertained. The only problem I have with this book is that there was not an ending. The book just ended and you don't know what Marie decided to do, you don't know what happened with Ellen or Benoit, and you just don't know if she suffered any consequences after everything that happened. For that reason I am going to have to knock some stars off.

A Google user

With each turn of the page, I wanted to hurry and turn to the next page. Great read. The only this is, what happens at the end? It left me with unanswered questions. SAD :(

A Google user

August 25, 2011

Just a bunch of rambling flashbacks with no true ending. Waste of my time.

About the author

Marcy Dermansky is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Indiana Review. Dermansky is a film critic for About.com and lives in Astoria, New York.

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