- Paperback: 178 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books (Jun 10 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345367731
- ISBN-13: 978-0345367730
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
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From Publishers Weekly
First-novelist Murray's juiceless sentences map youthful degeneration and ennui in Manila. For all the story's foreign tinsel, however, the nightclub-hopping, liquor-guzzling protagonist, Isobel della Fortuna, is a pale clone of the cocaine-addict antihero of Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City ; Murray has even included the requisite dying mother who induces guilty soul-searching. Forsaking her boyfriend, illegitimate but beautiful Isobel falls into a dangerous, hopeless liaison with her social better, Paulo Aguilar, whose father, we are told, is the leader of the Philippine opposition. But there is scant political analysis here. Murray is too busy dishing out personal dramas and grand gestures to little effect: Isobel flirts with men by spilling her drinks over the fronts of their shirts; she walks into a smoke-filled room of fashionable "vultures" and is certain everyone is watching her, "trying to predict my next move." Isobel and Paulo may intrigue each other ("Being with Paulo is almost like being with myself. We're cynical, we're superior, we're arrogant . . . we're condemned to one another since we can't get along with anyone else"), but their ridiculous shenanigans and sense of self-importance will annoy readers.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Entertaining, Jan 12 2006
By Art Love - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Slow Burn (Paperback)
I really fluked into this one. A pleasant surprise. With ,
Slow Burn , Sabina Murray has skillfully captured the plastic
existence of a well-to-do sector of Philippine society. Take
out the occasional use of the country's language and specific
locations , and this story could've easily taken place anywhere.
A well crafted novel.
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