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'Sara slept with the enemy but survived. She was one of the lucky ones. Any woman contemplating leaving a violent relationship would do well to read this book' - Erin Pizzey. She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she ever met. Her husband.
- Sales Rank: #893628 in Books
- Published on: 1991-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.01" h x .75" w x 4.33" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 332 pages
From Publishers Weekly
This powerful, moving and well-controlled thriller follows the metamorphosis of Sara Burney, an abused, submissive and battered wife whose daily goal has been to keep her brutish husband Martin from still more violent assaults. Presumed dead when she is swept overboard from a sailboat in Manhasset Bay, Sara seizes the opportunity to escape from her husband and begin a new life. She rides the bus from Boston to the small university town of Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she finds a job as caretaker to Dr. Hazel Channing, a professor who is recovering from an accident that has left her both mute and paralyzed. Sara (now known as Laura Pray) gradually edges into independence. She reads Henry James to Dr. Channing and awakes her to sprightly dialogue. She finds the strength and the wisdom to counsel another woman in crisis. And she begins a tentative but promising relationship with her next-door neighbor, a perceptive professor. But her desire to visit her mother in a nursing home enables her murderously psychotic husband to trace her. Reveries, dreams and images of drowning form an effective counterpoint to chilling scenes of observation and pursuit, and the author of An Accomplished Woman brings the novel to a triumphant conclusion. Major ad/promo; film rights to Leonard Goldberg Productions.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Picking up on society's increasing concern with battered wives, Price's work is a disjointed account of Sara Burney's long-postponed attempt to escape her abusive husband. Motivation and empathy are sadly lacking and questions abound: Why did she remain in a childless marriage to be abused for over three years? What drove Martin Burney to his destructive behavior? Is Sara's relationship with new neighbor Ben Woodward realistic given her circumstances? Price has unfortunately reinforced the stereotype of librarians as weak-willed, desperately sex-starved women. Secondary characters serve little or no purpose. On the whole unsatisfactory. Judith A. Gifford, Salve Regina Coll. Lib., Newport, R.I.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Wonderfully gripping" Deborah Moggach
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
THE MOVIE WAS MUCH BETTER
By Danny Matthews
The movie was much better. I almost gave up on reading this but I kept reading and it was ok but I liked the movie better. If I had not seen the movie first I may have liked it better.The movie will keep you on the edge of your seat the book will not. if you have never seen the movie it is pretty good but the movie is a really good thriller.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
One of My Favorites
By Renter
I love this book so much I have twice tracked down used copies of it after losing a copy. If I lose this copy, I'll be looking to replace it again. It has a permanent place on my bookshelf. I reread it about once a year. This is not a novelization, for anyone who might be wondering. This is an original novel that inspired the screenplay that most people are more familiar with.
It's hard to explain the appeal of this book, since the subject is so difficult to read about, but I'll try. I think it has to do with the supportive female relationships depicted in the book. If you've seen the movie, you already know the action that sets the plot in motion, but you've only seen a little of the web of relationships the heroine develops in the book.
The plot is exciting, and again, anyone who has seen the movie that was based on this book (or a half a dozen movie knock-offs) is already familiar with it: a woman is so determined to break free of her abusive, controlling husband that she fakes her own death in order to escape. And again, the falling action begins after the husband discovers that she might really be alive.
It's what happens in between that makes this book a keeper for me. If you've seen the movie, you've seen that the heroine develops a cautious but sweet relationship with Ben, her drama teacher neighbor in her new town. That happens in the book, too. You've also seen that the heroine has a beautiful relationship with her mother. That is also in the book, but there is so much more. Remember the African violets Julia Roberts lovingly sets on a windowsill during the housecleaning montage? Those have a great deal of significance in the book, and they are directly related to the heroine's relationship with her mother. There are a number of beautifully written relationships in this novel, some of them offered as vignettes featuring side characters who don't appear in the film, and some directly related to the heroine (I will keep using that term because the book and movie switch her real name/alias and I want to avoid confusion). As the heroine rediscovers who she is, she also rediscovers how to make connections to the other people around her, especially the women she encounters. The theme of reclaiming the self that is so integral to the film is present here as well, but there is a strong undercurrent of reclaiming the self-in-community in the book, and it's not easy for her. She has to overcome barriers that she has built up to protect herself. It's a wonderful read.
The suspense aspect is back as well, when Martin, the husband, begins trying to track the heroine down. I won't spoil the ending because there is a slight difference between the book and the movie. It's enough of a difference to avoid spoiling it, but I will say this: I preferred the movie's ending on my first read, but on subsequent reads, I realized the author was trying to make a specific point with her staging of the denouement. It's not a downer ending, don't get me wrong, but it does create a different impression, of the heroine, of Martin, and of everything that has led up to that point.
Well, enough of my blathering. This book is out of print but there are still a number of used copies in circulation and they are currently not expensive to get hold of. Take advantage of that while you can and get yourself a copy!
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
The book stands on its own as a great piece of work...
By A Customer
I was surprised when I found out that the movie was based on a novel by the same name. I was even more surprised when I found the novel at my local library a while back. But what took my breath away was that the book was in fact ten times better and a bit different than the movie.
You probably know the plot and characters by now, so I won't go into that. What I will say is that the writing is some of the best prose I've read in a thriller novel of this kind, and the bad guy (the husband) is one of the most realistic and most interesting villains in modern fiction. The main character, Sara, has life breathed into her through Ms. Price's writing that the movie never had a hope of matching, and I found myself caring for her and those around her greatly, while at the same time anticipating when her husband would find her.
If you've seen the movie, you owe it to yourself to read this book. If you liked the movie, read the book to get an entirely different and much better form of the main plot. If you hated the movie, read the book so you can see how the movie 'should' have been.
Great work, Ms. Price, I'll have to be looking for more novels by her. This book gets a high recommendation from me. Pick it up!
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