My Life, Starring Dara FalconKnopf, 1997 - 307 pages Dara Falcon is brilliant. She is manipulative. She is seductive. She makes things happen. She is someone for whom the novel's narrator, Jean Warner, is a perfect complement. Jean, an appealing but unformed young woman, is an only child brought up by an aunt after her parents' death. She has married into a large New England family, in which she happily -- if somewhat passively -- immerses herself. Until Dara Falcon arrives in town. Almost immediately they are friends; almost immediately everything about Dara fascinates Jean -- Dara's secret and perfect room, her past, her clothes, her acting career, her unabashed assault on the town's men. And almost immediately the ordinary stresses and strains of the family Jean has idealized become apparent as Dara insinuates herself into their lives. Suddenly Dara is everywhere -- moving in with the man who may drive the family's business under; writing mysteriously to Jean's favorite and supposedly happily married brother-in-law; horning in on Jean's part-time typing job; setting herself up as the star of the local play. And soon Jean's life, her marriage, her very idea of herself, have been dramatically wrenched out of their seemingly innocent, if unexamined, balance, sending her off in uncharted directions. |
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... Dara , expressing her undying devotion , and cueing me that I should respond in kind , because she was gravely ill ... Dara's behavior — I was even more worked up about it years ago — and then had said to me , “ She sounds like my idea ...
... Dara , expressing her undying devotion , and cueing me that I should respond in kind , because she was gravely ill ... Dara's behavior — I was even more worked up about it years ago — and then had said to me , “ She sounds like my idea ...
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... Dara's . " Who was the fruitcake ? " Bob whispered , when we were back in our seats . " The man you just met ? He was engaged to Grace Aldridge . I told you about the day he and a relative- " " Engaged to the old lady ? If he was ...
... Dara's . " Who was the fruitcake ? " Bob whispered , when we were back in our seats . " The man you just met ? He was engaged to Grace Aldridge . I told you about the day he and a relative- " " Engaged to the old lady ? If he was ...
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... Dara's momentum was dissipating . A shadow of worry crossed her face . " Shhh ! " a woman sitting near them said . I looked at Edward Quill , sitting to the side . He was rigid . Dara whirled away from the people she had been facing ...
... Dara's momentum was dissipating . A shadow of worry crossed her face . " Shhh ! " a woman sitting near them said . I looked at Edward Quill , sitting to the side . He was rigid . Dara whirled away from the people she had been facing ...
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