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62nd out of 101 books
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14 voters
Vicious Spring
Stunning and brutal, unflinching and unforgettable, shocking and totally original, here is a debut novel that charts the drug-fueled descent of a Nashville teen into the sex trade.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
April 6th 2004
by Riverhead Trade
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So from mainstream to subversion and this works very well.
The book is told in three sections - each with a different name of the main protagnist - Christy, Sugar and Veronica.
Christy is a 18 year old student on her last day at school, tripping out on acid at the family table.
She is thinking of the future - a job is a shop or working as a stripper at her boyfriends club, where she metamorphes into Sugar after surviving a car crash that kills her sister.
Sugar gets the attention of her other sister...more
The book is told in three sections - each with a different name of the main protagnist - Christy, Sugar and Veronica.
Christy is a 18 year old student on her last day at school, tripping out on acid at the family table.
She is thinking of the future - a job is a shop or working as a stripper at her boyfriends club, where she metamorphes into Sugar after surviving a car crash that kills her sister.
Sugar gets the attention of her other sister...more
So, I think the total amount of times that I've read this book must exceed seven or so, by now. I remember every word, every sensation, every nuance of our main character to the "T." I feel as if I have lived inside her bones and have paraded her sorrow around town for all to mourn for me, while vicariously I have become numb in my own ineptitude toward emotion. I picked this up when I lived in Tennesee, supposedly Hollis Hampton-Jones lived in Tennesee when she wrote it, and it is just pure fil...more
this book was given to me as a gift. i probably wouldn't have read it otherwise. it may not be what i would consider a classic but i enjoyed it. i read it sprawled out on my bed, listening to loud music. in the end, i think my content mood had a lot to do with how i feel about this.
i might have liked it more but the ending seemed abrupt and unfinished to me.
all the characters are a bit on the extreme side which makes the struggles of the main character seem not as dramatic as they would otherwi...more
i might have liked it more but the ending seemed abrupt and unfinished to me.
all the characters are a bit on the extreme side which makes the struggles of the main character seem not as dramatic as they would otherwi...more
What a F***** up story! Every second kept me wanting more. Hampton-Jones knows how to wrap you up in the drug-addicted, dance club stripping, family abandoning life of a nineteen-year-old!!! This was almost a complete home run (I hated the ending), and as good as it was, this authors only piece. That, aside from the ending, is my only disappointment.
Christy is an amoral, apathetic, drug-pushing stripper, searching for some sort of tangible guidepost to show her what's meaningful and right. Vicious Spring depicts her graphic and tragic search for that meaning. The book serves as an incredibly realistic allegory of modernity's erasure of any semblance of "real." Hampton-Jones has put together a pitch-perfect portrayal of what goes wrong when relationships lose meaning, society decays, and sex is cheap. Christy's final realization is hopeful a...more
A gritty raw story that leaves you wondering if there will ever be a happy ending for the character. The story takes place in a very surreal world of a girl who is adrift in the world through a haze of drugs, alcohol, grief and sex. The pacing is extremely fast pace; like most downward spirals are and I liked that about the story.
Was there a plot? I'm thinking that this was more of a snapshot into someone's life, than a complete story, and we are left wondering will she go back dancing for her b...more
Was there a plot? I'm thinking that this was more of a snapshot into someone's life, than a complete story, and we are left wondering will she go back dancing for her b...more
The premise of this book had great promise; however, it reads more like an outline or a sketch of what could have been a great novel. There are huge plot holes and barely any character development whatsoever.
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