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false <![CDATA[A Field Guide to Deception]]> 6357953 1 Praise for Red Audrey and the Roping by Jill Malone: “Luminescent writing. . . . Finely tuned, daring, and perceptive, Malone’s auspicious debut leaves us wanting more.”—Whitney Scott, Booklist “A lyrical, passionate novel about desire, about danger, and about the need for self-forgiveness. A wonderfully impressive writing debut.”—Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch “First-rate writing and characterization.”—Cecelia Martin, Diva “Malone’s nonlinear novel jitterbugs through time and place—the splintered chronology is a rewarding challenge. . . . A dazzling and dramatic debut.”—Richard Labonté, BookMarks/Q Syndicate In Jill Malone’s second novel, A Field Guide to Deception, nothing is as simple as it appears: community, notions of motherhood, the nature of goodness, nor even compelling love. Revelations are punctured and then revisited with deeper insight, alliances shift, and heroes turn anti-hero—and vice versa. With her aunt’s death Claire Bernard loses her best companion, her livelihood, and her son’s co-parent. Malone’s smart, intriguing writing beguiles the reader into this taut, compelling story of a makeshift family and the reawakening of a past they’d hoped to outrun. Claire’s journey is the unifying tension in this book of layered and shifting alliances. A Field Guide to Deception is a serious novel filled with snappy dialogue, quick-moving and funny incidents, compelling characterizations, mysterious plot twists, and an unexpected climax. It is a rich, complex tale for literary readers. Jill Malone’s first novel, Red Audrey and the Roping, won the Bywater Prize for Fiction. 6544889 1 5 2009 A Field Guide to Deception total:1|5:1| 1 5 4 1 5 1 false false Wed Mar 25 01:45:59 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 08:40:42 -0700 2009 Red Audrey and the Roping]]> 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 22:55:38 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 22:55:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 14 22:44:05 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 22:44:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 09 10:47:39 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 10:47:39 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6357953