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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780385498043
ISBN number: 0385498047
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: August 21, 2001
Publishing house: Anchor
Release Date: August 21, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 1464224
Studio: Anchor
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In his most enthralling novel since the acclaimed Tupelo Nights, John Ed Bradley tells a scorching story of sex and death in sultry New Orleans.
After years as an “actress” in California, Juliet Beauvais is drawn back to town with the promise of a big inheritance. But she finds her “dying” mother all too healthy and making other plans. Fortunately for Juliet, Sonny LaMott has been carrying a torch for her all these years, and he’s easily lured into a scheme that’s sure to get Juliet what she deserves. Twisted, gothically atmospheric, and replete with surprise, My Juliet is a deliciously dark and mordantly funny tale.
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In John Ed Bradley's well-wrought page-turner, doom hovers under every encounter. Sonny LaMott is a down-and-out painter in New Orleans, selling bad portraits to tourists for $40 a pop. Years ago the city seemed romantic and important to him, a place fit for a Tennessee Williams backdrop. These days all that has turned into cliché. Everything he paints looks like something from a gift shop postcard. The real reason for Sonny's cynicism becomes clear in a scene where he watches a porn video starring the object of his adolescent desire: 15 years later, Juliet Beauvais, his femme fatale and very first love, has gone into hardcore. When she returns to New Orleans unexpectedly, Sonny falls quickly under her spell again. The novel's tension resides with Juliet and her wild appeal: she can make men grovel at her feet, even kill for her. Determined to whack her mother and collect her inheritance, Juliet manipulates Sonny, trying to convince him that he's not really a cheesy artist--he's a glamorous hit man. And she's not really a drug-addled porn star, she's the woman who will save his life.
With My Juliet John Ed Bradley (Tupelo Nights, Love and Obits) proves he has a gift for crazy women. While most hard-boiled writers of this genre, including masters like James Ellroy, tend to dodge the interior lives of their screwed-up ladies, he paints a rich portrait of a woman on the edge--narcissistic, deeply damaged, unable to find peace or pleasure. She's also funny, complaining to herself that it's 'oppressively, stupidly hot,' and thumbing through a self-help book she finds on an airplane, 'she reads half a page before encountering a trash can on the main concourse and throwing it away.' Juliet doesn't believe in self-help or redemption; she believes in money, sex, her own powers of persuasion. Bradley makes her chillingly believable, and she's the one who propels this novel's atmosphere of guilt, doom, and dark pleasure. --Emily White
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Normally, I am not really a fan of mysteries. I am however, a New Orleanean who loves to read books pertaining to the area and in that regard, this is one of the best I have ever come across. The story itself is more than decent, but the rich descriptions of the city are what more than held me captive. You want to feel sorry for the main character, Sonny due to his undying love for a crazed woman who keeps breaking his heart over and over again, but mid-way through the novel you want to scream at him "WAKE UP!!!" This is book I would highly recommend to other readers.
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i read this one because i haven't been down south in three years and lately i've been reading southern books, just out of sentimentality....this story is ruthless. it's a bout a man's obsession with a woman who has him pegged; he knows she is bad for him, but he loves her anyway. every man has had at least one woman in his life who was that way( and probably yearns for another ) sonny is one of those artists who probably knows he bad, but he does it because he doesn't know how to do any thing else...he makes for an interesting psychological profile.
but the book is all about juliet....
man, this woman is the epitome of the psychowoman from hell...the things she says and does freaked me out totally...if the story was just about the realtionship between sonny and juliet, i would have given it five stars...but mr bradley, had to do a james m. cain, and give us a crime story... i wasn't that impressed...
still the book was cool, just to " see " new orleans again...sometimes, i do miss it......
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This book has a fantastic beginning! For me, there is nothing than a good novel from the American south, and this book starts out just that way! The characters are astounding! Juliet has it all! The things that drive us and the characters in the book to her and the same things that drive us away. What a powerful start! About midway, the book takes a turn towards a mundane murder mystery. As a police mystery, the book was not nearly as interesting as it was as a Southern novel. The ending was even weaker. I enjoyed it, but wished that Bradley had continued his write to his strengths to the end.
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"My Juliet" by John Ed Bradley is a departure for me. It's not really a book that I would be drawn too, but I was so wrong. It was dramatic, emotional, harsh, and crafty. I was fascinated by this tale of two people who are wildly drawn to each other. Their love is dangerous and not healthy. But, you can't stop reading...just like you can't help but look at a car accident. It was tumultuous read, and I was absorbed by these people. Almost obsessively so. I think that if you're a "real" reader with patience and a knowledge of good literature you'll appreciate what the author was trying to do. He was successful and I was enchanted. Wonderful Book!
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Wow! What a woman! This Juliet is unlike any character I've ever encountered in life or in fiction. This novel is like New Orleans itself; gorgeous and fun loving on the outside, steamy, sexy, and decaying on the inside. Poor Sonny LaMott! He has the bad luck to fall in love with Juliet, a person of almost no morals and no interest in anything but herself and her own pleasure. Like 'Tupelo Nights,' 'My Juliet' is a terrific read. It is a dark and twisted woman who leads us down a dark and twisted path. A path that is ultimately satisfying because the writing is so wonderful, the characters unforgettable, and the story so seductive.
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