| Product Summary | Format:  Audio Cassette Unabridged | | ISBN: 9781593351588 | | Publisher: Brilliance Audio | | Publish Date: 6/10/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 39727504 | | Item#: BVFH2T | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.25H x 5.25L x 0.5T |
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| | | In Total Recall, Sara Paretsky brings together several disparate plots in one gripping story. This powerfully suspenseful novel confronts the machinations of a vast and corrupt industry that trades on the victims of Nazi terrorism; the strange and dubious phenomenon of "recovered memory; " and a personal story that brings V. I. Warshawski into the long-buried past of her dearest friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Herschel.
Lotty was a child of nine when she came to England in 1939 as a refugee from Austria. Having lost her entire family to the Nazi terror, she grew up and completed her medical training in London - and there fell in love with a fellow refugee. She ended the affair when she discovered she was pregnant and bore the child in secrecy, giving it up for adoption. Now, that long-held secret may be exposed.
At a national conference in Chicago on Jews in Modern America, a man with recovered memories makes a dramatic appearance and claim - and his name brings consternation to Lotty. V.I. is retained to find out whether or not he is a surviving relative of Lotty's. It's a search that meshes stunningly with the pursuit of another case she is on - for what she uncovers, to her great peril, is brutal insurance fraud on an international scale.
Total Recall is Paretsky's most spectacular achievement to date, and takes V.I. to new heights of gusto, guts, passion for justice - and risk.
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At the request of her esteemed friend Dr. Lotty Herschel, V.I. Warshawski investigates an insurance scam with dark roots in the Holocaust and connections to some of the world's most venerable and powerful corporations.
| PraiseSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"[O]nce she gets on track, [Warshawski] handles things with typical savviness." - David Lazarus 09/02/2001New York Times Book Review
"TOTAL RECALL is written with the stylistic verve and intellectual energy of a writer just coming into her own." - Marilyn Stasio 09/23/2001 Washington Post Book World
"[A] spectacular mystery--complex, fast-paced yet ruminative, and imbued with the grim awareness, shared by all intelligent hard-boiled novels, that the past always catches up with us, sooner or later." - Maureen Corrigan 09/20/2001 |
| Author Bio| Sara Paretsky | | Sara Paretsky grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas and later attended the University of Chicago, where she received her doctorate degree. The recipient of the Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers Association, Sara Paretsky is an accomplished writer of mysteries. Her novels feature the detective-heroine V. I. Warshawski, a wily investigator who specializes in crimes that involve women clients and touch upon issues politically relevant to women. In her own words, Sara Paretsky is an "outspoken opponent of sadistic violence perpetrated against women in detective fiction." She is one of the founding members of Sisters in Crime and has been recognized as one of "Ms." magazine's Women of the Year. |
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