Title: Read This Book
Product review: I love the neat inevitability of this story, how doomed the heroine, Andrea, feels from the get-go, how complicit she is in her fate, and yet how full of fresh promise she emerges in the very last pages. Reeling out a taut line of tension between her scheming characters, Morris snags the reader. She also does a masterful job of establishing the complex role that Andrea's art, her painting, plays in her life. The paintings themselves, a feverish outpouring as Andrea plots her revenge, are rendered brilliantly in Morris's prose; even now as I recall them the images spring to mind as if I'd seen the paintings in the artist's studio, rather than had them described. Love, friendship, solace, stability -- all are elusive for Andrea. But her fierce devotion to her work, and its dense weave of meaning, sustain her throughout. I love that. This is a terrific book.
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