Suicide Blonde

by Darcey Steinke

Book Overview

S. alone, "Suicide Blonde" is a beautiful, brutal cult classic that "Details" calls "a shocking and electrifying journey into the inferno of sexual obsession."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871134799
• ISBN13: 9780871134790
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Poetic Prose

This book will appeal to people who really get into poetic prose. The story is pretty dark, but it's pretty involving. I like this book the best out of her others (I'd rank "Jesus Saves" second) and I'd read it for a third time. I love the way she writes!

Love in a Book

I picked up this book not knowing what to expect, my cousin gave it to me as a gift. As I read this book I felt mesmerized and taken away with it's graffic description to love, and hate. I could not put this book down for a second until I could finish it. For anyone who wants to know the beauty and the grotesqueness of love.

Call me pretentious, I liked it...a lot

I have to admit I initially bought this book for the cover. That beautiful naked, blonde woman smoking...yeah. Look at it one more time.People call this book pretentious, over-the-top and self-conscious. Well they can go do that, but I liked the book. I'm not going to describe the events in the book because the review above did so already..., but I'll tell you why I liked it.Like Dacey Steinke's _Jesus Saves_, _Suicide Blonde_ attempts to get inside the ennui, if you will, of a middle-class run-of-the -mill minister's daughter. We have all wondered what it would be like to run away, start a new life, or do something like become a prostitute (well, mine anyway). Maybe most of us know that the life of the prostitute, fo example, is anything but a viable escape, but still, the thought crosses our mind: the anonymity, the base sex, the flip-side of a "proper" woman's behavior. Steinke lets you vicariously explore this option and see that not everyone dwells in the world where degrees matter, boyfriends stay and content suburban life is a goal to be reached. So, maybe Jesse is, as one reviewer put in "slumming," not really having to live this life but "just visiting." But following her through those turbulent few weeks, we the reader too are slumming and watching an unbelievable chain of events play out. And watch Steinke's ability as a grat story-teller remove you from your existence to another. And isn't that what a good novel is supposed to do? So, it won't change your life, won't help you quit smoking, lose wieght, find a man and have a gentically perfect baby, but who wants those things anyway?

Never thought in a million years...

This book for some might be a bit werid to follow... but if you hang in there for the first chapter you'll get in to it. I have to admit I picked the book up off the bookshelf in the store and opened it up and read the first 2 sentences and thought... "gonna get this one too" as i put it in my basket. The book is written very beautifully. You feel as if you can relate to this character the more you read it. Wants mothers attention. Going from boyfriend to boyfriend.. maybe even a girkfriend in there too. But the book all blows down to is reality and what we all think inside out heads! Great Beach read.. if you liked this I would recommend "LAYOVER" by Lisa Zeidner... this and her book could have been written by the same person. Both great reads! 5 stars...

THE BEST BOOK IVE READ SO FAR!!!!!

I read this book expecting to be disappionted instead I was dazzled,this book is amazing and anyone who disagrees should stick to reading lame and unimportant books try a dictionary or somthing along that, after I read this book I immediately started looking for more of this auther's work. I would and have recomended this book to everyone I know IT IS AN AMAZING BOOK!!