The Last Talk with Lola Faye: An Otto Penzler Book (Otto Penzler Books) Paperback - 2011
by Thomas H. Cook
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- Title The Last Talk with Lola Faye: An Otto Penzler Book (Otto Penzler Books)
- Author Thomas H. Cook
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-06-21
- Bookseller's Inventory # Z0159072
- ISBN 9780547520292 / 0547520298
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.4 x 0.73 in (20.22 x 13.72 x 1.85 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Middling historian Lucas Paige 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 long blamed for his father’s murder decades earlier.
Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, the hotel bar dissolves around them and 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 why Lola Faye has come and what she is after—before it is too late.
A taut literary thriller in the gothic tradition of Master of the Delta.