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Janowitz, Tama. Peyton Amberg.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 352p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31844-8).
Billed as a modern-day Madame Bovary, Janowitz's tenth book traces the rise and eventual ruin of a woman who believes her only resource is her beauty. Bored with her job and desperate to move out of her family's filthy apartment, Peyton marries the first man who asks. She's soon disenchanted with marriage and drifts into a series of infidelities. When her beauty begins to fade, her increasingly desperate need for male attention drives her into situations at first merely humiliating but ultimately degrading and dangerous. Janowitz's eye for the sordid detail is as merciless ...
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