Night Woman

by Nancy Price

When her new lover expresses overly keen interest in the life story of her late husband, a mentally unstable author whose books she actually wrote, Mary Eliot decides to make the would-be biographer pay dearly.

Genres: Fiction

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

“I was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and raised in Detroit, but it seems to me that I spent my childhood in books,” Nancy Price says. “At fourteen I saw a poem of mine published in the Detroit News, and there I was: a writer.”

Nancy received her B.A. in English and art from Cornell College in 1946. In 1945 she married Howard J. Thompson, who joined the faculty of the University of Northern Iowa. Their three children, Catherine, John and David, were born in the 1950s.

Reviews

[Debbie]

im mad because i got through the beginning trusting it would get better but ended up finishing it only to make sure it would end the predictable way it was going. and the ending...it was like the author fell asleep at the typewriter

[Jolieg G]

Beeldend beschreven.

Geen boek waarvan ik denk dat je dit toch echt moet gaan lezen maar vond het een heerlijk tusssendoortje.

[Diba Roshan]

اصن این کتابو دوست نداشتم نویسنده خیلی داستان رو کش داده بود و در پایان داستان هم اصلن خوب نبود کلا کتابش بدرد ساختن سریال درام می خورد

[Simin Yadegar]

زنی که به خاطر عشق دروغ گفت . ماری کویین همسر یک استاد دانشکاه و نویسنده است . همسراو بیماری روانی دارد و قادر به نوشتن نیست و لی ماری رمانهایی را می نویسد و به نام همسرش به چاپ میرساند. او حتی به خود همسرش هم می قبولاند که خودش رمانهارا در حالت خلسه نوشته است . . او برای همسرش شهرت و جایزه پولیتزر به ارمغان می آورد و به این دل خوش می دارد که خانواده اش مستحکم باشد و فرزندانش برای ادامه تحصیل و کار و ازدواج پول کافی داشته باشند . او بی اعتنایی دیگران به خودش و تحسین دیگران از شوهرش و بد رفتاریها ی او را تحمل می کند و دم نمی زند , اما حادثه ای همه چیز را دگرگون می کند ......

[Colleen]

Something about this author's writing really resonates with me - I'm sorry her books are out of print and not well-known (or available on Kindle). I didn't expect to be so absorbed with Sleeping With the Enemy, and I can barely explain why this one sucked me in. The plot is simple and straightforward and not that much happens over the course of an entire novel, yet the situations were just off-kilter enough to keep my interest piqued for what would happen next to the main character.

I loved this most of the way through, then felt like it lost steam near the end (possibly I just didn't have time to devote to reading and lost my personal momentum). And while I thought the ending was satisfying, it felt a little quick, and more predictable than the rest of the novel.

[Shaynning - Libraire Jeunesse]

Mary Quinn est mère de quatre enfants, femme au foyer soumise et dévouée à son mari schizophrène, qui se montre violent et cruellement suffisant de par son doctorat. Mary n'a aucun diplôme et pourtant, derrière chaque livre de son mari se cache sa propre plume. Eliot Randald, son mari, est convaincu qu'il est le grand écrivain qui écrit "en transe" à l'aide de son épouse comme rédactrice, jusqu'à son décès. Mary, alors libre, commence à vivre, mais un homme, cupide de gloire et fan de Randal, la séduit et devient son nouveau mari. Paul Anderson veut être le biographe du génie des livres qu'il vénère et dans l'entre-fait, Mary aspire à devenir un écrivain enfin reconnue.

Bon petit livre à lire pour occuper le temps.


Catégorisation: Roman fiction adulte
Note:5/10

[Alireza]

کتاب متوسطی بود! مثل یک فیلم متوسط... به نظرم کتاب این قابلیت را داشت که از رویش فیلمی ساخته شود! شاید هم ساخته شده و من بی اطلاع هستم. جاهایی از کتاب به فراخور حال خواننده آموزنده است. خواندنش خالی از لطف نیست!

[Divya]

This book was unexpectedly excellent. The writing and plot were compulsive and the Paul + Randall's sinister treatment of Mary was masterfully done.

[Sara]

نااميد نباش. وقتى كوهنوردان راه کوه را گم مى كنند و در نهايت نااميدى گرفتار مى شوند ناگهان سگى آنها را پیدا مى كند وبه اين ترتيب نجات پيدا مى كنند وزنده مى مانند.)

[Mel]

I see that this book isn't really highly rated (other editions), but I loved it.

Spoiler alert - there is a scene near the end of the book where the main character reveals a secret to her daughter, and it turns out that the kids knew all along and had kept the secret for her; they'd found her hiding place and read her manuscripts with great delight. It's moments like this that make books for me.

Of course, I don't like the idea that the woman sacrificed herself for all those years. It's not healthy or moral. But she woke up and took it back, which redeemed her in my eyes.

[Melissa]

I didn't have any expectations for the book but I liked it. It surprised me! I knew right away that Paul was going to be trouble, he was way to obsessed with Randel. Mary is quite a character, I was rooting for her the whole time and I was proud of her at the end and the decision she made. But she does seem to have bad luck with finding the right guy. This book is very relatable for woman who have to always listen to there husbands and do what they say and then finally the woman are able to live their life how they want it.

[Dionaea]

There's a very good chance that I'm in one of those "all depictions of hetero love is making me sick and I just want a Beyonce breakup song in novel form" moods. I really liked this book and thought it was better than Sleeping With The Enemy.

[Rosie]

great

[Joni]

8

[Wendy]

It wasn't as suspenseful as I thought it would be. She is a good writer but this book was slow paced. I would like to read Sleeping with the enemy to compare her style. Honestly I skipped to the end.

[Ann]

The first half of this book was intriguing. The second half felt like it was written by a different person. The second half was predictable and mundane. It felt as if the author was on deadline and just wanted to "get it done".I was so disappointed.