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Crime Wave : a Novel by John Stewart Wynne is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Crime Wave : a Novel about?

Wynnes first novel Crime Wave details the unexpected love affair between a photojournalist (Jake Adams) and a woman (Renee Cloverman) living in a Manhattan brothel. Jake attempts to make Renee respectable by moving her into the country with his aunts family where her presence turns out to be a risk not only for her but for them as well. It was praised by author Barbara Trapido in The Spectator as a disturbing, well-written and impressive work whose genre is Manhattan lumpen Gothic...the book has a terrible and compelling beauty. Author Jenny Uglow in The Times Literary Supplement wrote Crime Wave is about personal and social sado-masochism. The authors challenging aim is to show there is no such thing as mindless violence, whether directed towards the self or towards others. Each aggressive act is the result of a long cycle of action and reaction, continued through generations. Crime Wave is an ambitious first novel. -- Wikipedia

Author

John Stewart Wynne

Publisher

London: Calder ; New York: Riverrun Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714538709

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities