Looking for Marianne - Ron Iannone - Bog

When Marianne Testa disappears, leaving her husband and two children behind, the village of Skaneateles, New York, is consumed by the mystery. Has she met with foul play, run away for some reason, died in some secluded spot? As the weeks roll by without an answer, the mystery swells into a national topic.Meanwhile, Paul is forced to live two lives. He plays the heartbroken husband and father to the increasingly intrusive public. But even temporarily, he cannot set aside his compulsion to seduce every attractive young woman he meets. Looking for Marianne compels the reader to join in the thirst for an answer.- - -"There's no hero or heroine in Looking for Marianne. Every important character in the novel is ready to make some large or small ethical compromise in order to get what they want.""Ron Iannone has an extensive background in writing and producing musicals and dramas, and that experience serves him well in his fiction writing. Conversations, events, and inner thoughts come in, hit their marks, propel the story, and move on. Like a well-written and well-staged play, Looking for Marianne never hurries and never stands still.""Ron Iannone writes simple, declarative, and often powerful sentences. He writes not for the elite, but for regular readers.""Looking for Marianne is like real life. You get all the information you can, you think hard about it, but in the end, you can't be totally sure about anything."