- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Signet (MM); Reissue edition (Jan 1 1981)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451148029
- ISBN-13: 978-0451148025
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,825,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Fielding (Kiss Mommy Goodbye explores the seemingly inexorable disintegration of a middle-aged Long Island woman's life in this chilling, suspenseful tale. Subservient, self-deprecating Joanne Hunter suddenly becomes inundated by traumas. First, her husband moves out of their house to slake his restlessness and dissatisfaction. Stunned by his abrupt departure, Joanne seeks support from her best friend and neighbor, psychology professor Eve Stanley, but Eve now suffers from some unidentified illness which she believes is fatal. Eve frantically insists that debilitating pains wrack her body, although her husband tells Joanne that they are psychosomatic ailments. While these crises unfold, senility plagues Joanne's beloved grandfather, and her two adolescent daughters bicker incessantly. Most unnerving of all are the inexplicable threatening phone calls that Joanne receives at the same time that someone dubbed "the Suburban Strangler" terrorizes Long Island. Fielding neatly delineates Joanne's fear, loneliness, and the courage with which she confronts her problems. Paperback rights to NAL; Doubleday Book Club dual main selection; Reader's Digest Condensed Books selection; Literary Guild alternate.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Fielding has made the woman-in-jeopardy genre her own."
--People
"Fielding knows how to turn the screws of suspense."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
New York Times bestselling author of Missing Pieces --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
--People
"Fielding knows how to turn the screws of suspense."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
New York Times bestselling author of Missing Pieces --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Keeps you interested,
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This review is from: The Deep End (Mass Market Paperback)
Like many of Joy Fielding's books, this one will keep you interested to the end. I didn't detect the real perp because I was so sure that this time I knew where Fielding's story was going.The other focus of the story, though, is the many complicated relationships. As a married woman in approximately the same age group as the main character I found the solution to her marital situation simplistic. The indicated problems between her best friend and her mother are never revealed... so all in all, the book left me with a number of unanswered questions that I would have preferred to see answered. The plot was interesting enough to keep me reading, so 3/5 stars it is for this one.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not much of a splash but entertaining,
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This review is from: The Deep End (Hardcover)
Joy Fielding's DEEP END won't create a splash in the literary world, but it is an intriguing story that's hard to put down. Heroine Joanne Hunter struggles to put her life back in order. Her husband has left her, her best friend is strangely distant, her beloved grandfather is dying in a nursing home. It's not the best time in her life.The book begins "The phone is ringing." Therein lies the problem: A series of phone calls, each more threatening than the last. Joanne, already emotionally drained, becomes increasingly distraught. Will she go off the deep end? "The only thing that prevented people from being happy twenty-four hours a day, Joanne thought with a sharp cackle, was life." Fielding has written many books, among them THE BEST OF FRIENDS and KISS MOMMY GOODBYE. Her strong point is plotting -- she constructs plots meticulously, inexorably. She "shows" a story well. Characterization is believable, but not outstanding. This is a book for suspense fans, or fans of Ms. Fielding. I was astonished by the ending.
2.0 out of 5 stars
The cover is deceiving,
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This review is from: Deep End (Paperback)
This book was OK but it is more about Joanne's relationships with her husband, daughters and best friend Eve. The phone calls from the person who wants to kill her is a small part of the story. There is very little suspense in this book. And it is far from scary!! If you like a book about how women cope with the breakup of a marriage this book is for you, if you want a thrilling, suspenseful book then forget it! You'll be disappointed.
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