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Confession
Elizabeth Gage
Fiction
369 pages
In moody prose, Gage (A Glimpse of Stocking) draws us
into the unlived life of Rebecca Lowell. Rebecca dotes
on her college-age daughter, Dusty, and endures her
womanizing lawyer husband, Damon, but her existence
has no real savor. When Dusty's boyfriend, Tony
Delafield, admits he has a crush on her, sparks
ignite. After Rebecca runs off with her daughter's
beau, leaving terse words for Damon and none for
Dusty, the girl descends into druggy, affectless sex.
As the affair with Tony loses its blinding passion,
Catholic-raised Rebecca tries in vain to confess,
leaves Tony for widower Sam Bittman and eventually
reunites with Dusty, who has been saved by the love of
grad student Cameron Burch. Yet Rebecca never finds
the peace of absolutionuntil the violence foreshadowed
by the prologue bring events full circle. Like the
affair itself, Dusty's forgiveness of Rebecca comes
out of the blue; indeed, the motivation for most of
the characters is sketchy, and too many pat new
relationships occur toward the end of the shallow and
facile narrative. But the painful questions Gage asks
about the right to live before one dies, at any price,
will intrigue readers of popular romances.
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