- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Carroll & Graf (Jun 28 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786713380
- ISBN-13: 978-0786713387
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13.9 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,182,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An ardent social critic, Bradfield, whose works include Greetings from Earth (1996), turns his discerning eye on the American justice system, a quagmire of quack psychologists, crooked jurists, and celebrity criminals, to paint a mocking portrait of a provocative serial killer. Delilah "Lah" Riordan is a teenage murderer with the guileless soul of a child and the voluptuous body of a Victoria's Secret model. Accused of luring countless men in numerous states to their gruesome deaths, the accomplished femme fatale is currently housed on death row in the corrupt and slipshod West Texas Woman's Penitentiary, where she endures ersatz confrontational therapy and rehabilitation counseling from two smarmy psychologists as amoral and degenerate as she is. To hear her tell it, Lah is just a good ol' gal gone wrong, the by-product of a dysfunctional family and a Svengali-like lover who, she intimates in her best O.J. fashion, is the "real killer." Who knows? She may be right. Bradfield's sardonic satire fairly glimmers with his trademark brand of irascibility and mordant humor. Carol Haggas
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"An amanuensis of alternative lives ... the best of his stories haunt with intimations of otherness."
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Darkly funny, disturbing novel!, Aug 8 2004
By CoffeeGurl - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Good Girl Wants It Bad: A Novel (Paperback)
I saw Good Girl Wants It Bad on the bookstore shelf and picked it up on a whim and was immediately enthralled by the dark language and unsettling humor. I couldn't put the memoirs of a nineteen-year-old nymphomaniac serial killer on death row down. With dark humor, beautiful prose and disturbing descriptions, Delilah "Lah" Riordan regales the reader with her life story and countdown to her demise. She also tells us about her affairs with her prison psychologists and research analysts. The secrets surrounding the murders she had been convicted for are discovered throughout her entries, legal files, interviews and letters.
Good Girl Wants It Bad is one of the darkest, most disturbing novels I've recently read. Scott Bradfield delves into the psyche of a deluded young woman and her sad childhood and dependency toward men and sex with excellent insight and prose. The book may come across as confusing at times. Lah has a rather disarming way of convincing herself and the reader that she is the proverbial "good girl," just someone who has been deeply misunderstood. And she does come across as endearing and even innocent in some very darkly funny scenes. Are you in the bargain for something dark, literary and different? I strongly suggest you give this novel a whirl. I am so glad I stumbled upon this book. For it is one of my best reading investments of the year!
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