The Love of a Bad Man - Woollett, Laura Elizabeth
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A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A Mormon wife follows her husband into the wilderness. The Love of a Bad Man imagines the lives of these and other real women--Blanche, the sister-in-law to Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson's California girls, and Marceline Jones (wife of Jim)--who were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various "bad" men in history. Beautifully observed, fascinating, and at times horrifying, the stories interrogate power and the nature of obsession. A mesmerizing…mehr

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A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A Mormon wife follows her husband into the wilderness. The Love of a Bad Man imagines the lives of these and other real women--Blanche, the sister-in-law to Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson's California girls, and Marceline Jones (wife of Jim)--who were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various "bad" men in history. Beautifully observed, fascinating, and at times horrifying, the stories interrogate power and the nature of obsession. A mesmerizing exploration of the lengths some women will go to for the men they love.
Autorenporträt
Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and two novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018) and The Newcomer (forthcoming Scribe, 2021). The Love of a Bad Man was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Beautiful Revolutionary was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. Laura is the City of Melbourne's 2020 Boyd Garret writer-in-residence and is a 2020-22 Marten Bequest scholar for prose.