Blameless: A Novel - Hardcover

Reardon, Lisa

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ISBN 10: 0375504052 ISBN 13: 9780375504051

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

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In a small Michigan town, a school bus driver hides from life in a few small pleasures, but the death of a student and the subsequent trial of his mother for murder triggers passion and grief in the lonely woman. By the author of Billy Dead. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Lisa Reardon is the author of a half dozen plays and one novel, Billy Dead. She received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. Reardon conducts a writing group for adolescents at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, where she lives with her husband, actor Mick Weber.

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ght turned blacker and colder. I switched off the car radio. I had a home to go to. I had locks on my doors. But just outside were dark hungry shapes that had once had names like Hero or Jack. Muzzles that used to nudge someone's hand for a pat now sniffed the air for prey. People walked away from the things they were responsible for, like those things weren't going to come back in the middle of the night and tear your throat open. I rolled up the window against the chill. Lit another cigarette with my head pounding like a kettledrum. The Merc rolled toward home."

Mary Culpepper is a strong woman, fearless and independent to a fault. But when she discovers the body of a child in her small northern Michigan town, she suffers a breakdown that has family and friends treating her like "sulfuric acid about to spatter." In the following months Mary does all she can to keep her mind off the upcoming trial, in which she will have to tell what she did--and did not--witness. It's a t

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