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The Catch
No one knows the seductive world of drugs and addiction better than Kim Wozencraft. In her first novel, Rush, she created an unforgettable female heroine, a cop pulled undercover, who risked her life and career when the lines of justice began to blur. Now, in The Catch, she revisits that world--only this time she is writing from the other side of the law.
Kurt and Annie have been dealing enormous quantities of pot, living like a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Only now, they've got two kids to take care of and the game has gotten far more dangerous. Annie is desperate to go legit, and the novel begins when Kurt, forever promising to make this trip his last, gets busted big-time by the DEA. It's unclear how much evidence they have, but Kurt won't risk life without parole and tries to convince Annie to take the kids and go on the lam with him. Staying behind and vulnerable, Annie becomes an easy target for DEA agent Joseph Kessler, who first sees Annie and her young sons as the bait to bringing Kurt in, but finds himself falling in love with her as she offers a kind of balm for his own broken life.
Wozencraft's clean, spare prose and psychological acuity combine to create the inner life of a woman desperate to keep her family together and the man she loves, whose addiction to danger threatens their very existence. Taut and compelling, The Catch is the story of a love triangle set against the backdrop of high-stakes drug dealing and the higher stakes of love.
Kurt and Annie have been dealing enormous quantities of pot, living like a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Only now, they've got two kids to take care of and the game has gotten far more dangerous. Annie is desperate to go legit, and the novel begins when Kurt, forever promising to make this trip his last, gets busted big-time by the DEA. It's unclear how much evidence they have, but Kurt won't risk life without parole and tries to convince Annie to take the kids and go on the lam with him. Staying behind and vulnerable, Annie becomes an easy target for DEA agent Joseph Kessler, who first sees Annie and her young sons as the bait to bringing Kurt in, but finds himself falling in love with her as she offers a kind of balm for his own broken life.
Wozencraft's clean, spare prose and psychological acuity combine to create the inner life of a woman desperate to keep her family together and the man she loves, whose addiction to danger threatens their very existence. Taut and compelling, The Catch is the story of a love triangle set against the backdrop of high-stakes drug dealing and the higher stakes of love.
310 pages, Hardcover
First published September 15, 1998
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Kim Wozencraft
20 books38 followersKIM WOZENCRAFT’S latest novel is NEGLECT, from Arcade/Simon and Schuster. Wozencraft is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Rush, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. Neglect is her sixth novel.
Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, Texas Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She was executive editor at Prison Life magazine and has written for HBO Films. Kim holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University and lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York, where she raised three children. She currently teaches English literature and writing courses at SUNY New Paltz and SUNY Ulster.
Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, Texas Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She was executive editor at Prison Life magazine and has written for HBO Films. Kim holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University and lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York, where she raised three children. She currently teaches English literature and writing courses at SUNY New Paltz and SUNY Ulster.
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September 27, 2008
Much like Rush, this is a great dramatic look at the world of drugs and the human side of the "criminal".
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