The Speed Queen - Hardcover

O'Nan, Stewart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385487010 ISBN 13: 9780385487016

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997

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Book by ONan Stewart

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A sensual, darkly comic novel of life in the fast lane by a noted young novelist tells the story of a female gang leader and drug addict from Oklahoma whose life story is exploited by a best-selling novelist. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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d I kill them?
I didn't kill them. I was there, but I didn't kill anyone.
I know exactly what happened, though. It's pretty boring, actually. It's pretty normal. I don't think people will be that interested. But if anyone can make it interesting, you can. You'll make it funny, too, which is right. Sometimes it was really funny. Even now some of it's funny.
Marjorie Standiford sits on Oklahoma's death row, hours away from execution, speaking into a tape recorder, telling her life story. She's answering questions about how she became the Speed Queen, one of the Sonic Killers--how mainlining speed with her husband Lamont and her lover Natalie grew into dealing, how dealing grew into robbery, and robbery into mass murder. She's telling her story because she wants to set the record straight, to correct the lies in Natalie's book, which became a bestseller.
Marjorie's book will be better. It wi

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385487010
• ISBN 13: 9780385487016
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212