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A provocative novel of jealousy and betrayal between two rival sisters from New York Times-bestselling author Josephine Hart
Ruth calls herself a malevolent creature, ruled since childhood by hatred and envy for her adopted sister, Elizabeth. She grew up in Elizabeth's shadow, always falling short of her goodness and generosity, constantly resenting her very presence in the family. As they grow old, Ruth sets out to destroy her without guilt or hesitation.
Ruth will strike Elizabeth where she's most vulnerable--she will steal her husband and send her collapsing into ruin. Written in Hart's concise, striking prose, Sin is a powerful and compulsively readable exploration of hate--and the destruction and tragedy it begets."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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A remarkable talent. Washington Post Book World"
"A remarkable talent." --Washington Post Book World
Sin, like Josephine Hart's third novel The Stillest Day, is an explicitly cautionary tale. Ruth Ashbridge is, from childhood, obsessively jealous of her orphaned cousin Elizabeth. At first, her envy leads her into only minor misbehaviour--adopting her smile, stealing her jewellery and silk underwear. Yet these small thefts quickly escalate into major transgressions as Ruth sets about stealing Elizabeth's husband and her happiness.
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The confessional nature of Hart's first-person narrative suits the outpouring of hatred and envy. Ruth's position is succinctly summed up: "Like Satan before the Fall, I came to hate the very nature of goodness, to fear its power." However, her emotion is occasionally overemphasised and the descriptions of her overwrought, resulting in Ruth sounding unintentionally comic. She says of her own marriage to Dominick: "We were balanced. His love. My coldness."
With Sin, Josephine Hart aims to create a modern biblical parable. In order to foreground the didactic content of her novel, Hart keeps characterisation to a minimum, shunning the complex psychology and narrative tension of her first novel Damage. In Hart's world, sin--succumbing to an impulse in complete disregard of its consequences--leads inescapably to tragedy. Through that tragedy, the heroine will learn too late the true value of goodness. --Vanessa Cook
The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination . . . a "tour de force." "The New York Times" Shocking . . . unrelenting in its intensity . . . you won t be able to put it down. "Cosmopolitan" A remarkable talent. "Washington Post Book World""
The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination . . . a tour de force. The New York Times
Shocking . . . unrelenting in its intensity . . . you won t be able to put it down. CosmopolitanA remarkable talent. Washington Post Book World"
"The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination . . . a tour de force." --The New York Times
"Shocking . . . unrelenting in its intensity . . . you won't be able to put it down." --Cosmopolitan"A remarkable talent." --Washington Post Book World
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- PublisherOpen Road Media
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 148047925X
- ISBN 13 9781480479258
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages134
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