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The Last Talk with Lola Faye: An Otto Penzler Book
The Last Talk with Lola Faye An Otto Penzler Book Author:Thomas H. Cook Middling historian Lucas Page visits St. Louis to give a sparsely attended reading—nothing out of the ordinary. Except among the yawning attendees is someone he did not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the “other woman” he has for decades blamed for his father’s murder. Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye at a hotel bar. As one drink turns into ... more »several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this defining moment—a violent crime of passion—is turned in the light once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there is much Luke doesn’t know. And what he doesn’t know can hurt him. Trapped in an increasingly intense emotional exchange, and with no place to go save back into his own dark past, Luke struggles to gain control of an ever more threatening conversation, to discover what Lola Faye is after—before it is too late.« less
To me, this book was terribly boring. After 100 pages I finally gave up. There are very few books that I give up on, but this one just could not hold my interest.