The Tempest of Clemenza
by Glenda Adams
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This dark, brilliant, aching, astonishingly unsentimental story within a tale within a mystery is haunted by impending doom. Clemenza's mother writes this story in tribute to the child she has lost. Her challenge is to write without sentimentality and without the dishonesty of romance, even while she acknowledges that sentiment and romance are important to young girls. This mother, whose own life has been wounded by malevolent men, wants to allow her child her dreamy hopes without seeing show more them abused by a world of masculine violence. A storm-tossed lake in Vermont, Shakespeare, academic word bullies in an Australian university, James Joyce, a mysterious van, a kidnapping, a lost manuscript, each thread weaves with the next, tighter and tighter in this highly intelligent and unsettling novel. show lessTags
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A suspenseful tale within a tale within a tale (and sometimes there was even a fourth tale in there, too) that ultimately amounts to not much memorable at all – but quite enjoyable during the reading of it.
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