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    Live Flesh
    Live Flesh
    Live Flesh
    Audiobook11 hours

    Live Flesh

    Written by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Ron Keith

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    Victor Jenner has just been released from prison where he spent 10 years paying for the shooting and crippling of a young policeman. But his new freedom serves only to fuel his obsession with the events that precipitated his arrest.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 29, 2011
    ISBN9781461812012
    Author

    Ruth Rendell

    Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writ­ers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.

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    • 3/5
      While I admire the author’s plotting skills, I often grew restless with this novel because page after page of narrative results in a slow read, and I’m a fan of dialogue-heavy stories. Dialogue is in short supply here, and without lots of character exchanges, you don’t get to know them as intimately.That said, you do get to know the main character very well. I thought his intense phobia of reptiles was a nice touch.
    • 1/5
      Probably my least favourite by Ruth Rendell, this was almost impossible to get into, and I found it hard to care about any of the characters.
    • 2/5
      Classified as a mystery but is really a psychological study. Victor Jenner is sent to prison for ten years for shooting Officer Fleetwood in the back, paralyzing him for life. Victor has lots of phobias and life long mental problems. When he gets out of prison he seeks Fleetwood to form a strange relationship. Slow moving and long narrative.
    • 4/5
      The tale of a rapist, the rapist conceived as one large twitch, a man whose "live flesh" will send him careening towards rape again. The question in the novel, the nature of its suspense, is not "will he rape again?" but "when" and "how." Chilling. inventive. A good run-through of standard pomo theories of sexual predation, too. You know: power and traumatized lust.