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With a serene simplicity of style, Marion Freed draws us into her seductive web as she cracks open the shutters of celebrity worshippers and social climbers. Her magic carpet takes us on a breath-taking ride inside the hearts as well as the entrails of the lovers, adulterers, artists and desperate wannabees who flourish and fester in the opulent swamps of the Hamptons, Beverly Hills and New York. Her characters ring so true, it can be painful for the reader to linger in front of a mirror. They are too familiar. At first, we snicker at the social climbers and their comical antics, but we become less judgmental when we see that they suffer the same delusions, ambition and fears that make up so much of our lives. But if they are us, we can’t avoid the haunting questions: How would we react to infidelity, crippling disease, an overnight success or sudden failure? One of the great joys of this compelling novel is to try and predict how we might turn out if, but for the grace of God, we were them. As she did in her magical book of short stories, Marion Freed once again stirs the reader and opens our hearts to a way of life, both desirable and terrifying. After graduating from Barnard College with a degree in English literature, Marion became an editorial researcher on You Are There, hosted by Walter Kronkite. That led to a promotion at CBS as Story Editor on a string of innovative shows such as Climax, Studio One, and Playhouse Ninety and from there to Dell and later Pines Publications. Like many of her contemporaries, Marion was drawn to film and became a Film Editor, working on a string of unique and highly successful films, including “Badlands”, “Fun With Dick and Jane”, “Days of Heaven”, “Carbon Copy and many others. (Google: Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) or the publisher’s website (www.bellrockent.com) for an extensive listing of Marion’s work, under both her professional names: Marion Segal and Marion S. Freed. In 2005, her first book of fiction, “Sideswiped”, a collection of four searing short stories, established her as a serious author. “Sagaponic Lane” is her first novel. "Impossible to put down...all the seamy seductions and shalowness of the Hamptons...there is Cheever, Didion and Ephron rolled into one." |
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