Desperate Acts

Jane Candia Coleman

2003年8月 · Penguin Random House Audio · 旁述：Mary Peiffer

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Nan Fletcher is an abused wife whose scars are all hidden because they're emotional. She appears to have it all--a great house, a successful professor husband, Jake, and her beautiful teenage son, Jamie--but with Jake's constant demand for perfection, she finds that she has lost her sense of self. She only feels alive when she finds a few moments to write poems and short stories, which her husband belittles. Nan and Jamie finally get a break from overbearing Jake when they end up going on vacation to a dude ranch without him. Ranch owner Ben is the antithesis of Jake--sensitive, kind, and appreciative of all that Nan has to offer--and he and the beauty of the West show Nan that there are alternatives to her life. The two fall in love, but will Nan have the strength to act on it?

Coleman has written a striking and empowering portrait of one woman's struggle against an insidious form of abuse.

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JANE CANDIA COLEMAN was head of Carlow's Creative Writing program until 1986, at which point she moved to Arizona and began writing full time. She has published over twenty books of fiction, poetry and memoir, and is the only woman to have received three Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.