My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (P.S.)
Herein is the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family destroyed a decade ago by the murder of Skylers six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part...
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Herein is the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family destroyed a decade ago by the murder of Skylers six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder, part elegy for the lost Bliss and for his own lost childhood, Skylers narrative is an alternately harrowing and corrosively funny exposÉ of upper-middle-class American pretensions—and an unexpectedly subtle and sympathetic exploration of those who dwell in "Tabloid Hell."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061547492 (0061547492)
ASIN: B0041T4O12
Publish date: June 9th 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Meine überschwängliche Begeisterung für die Autorin Joyce Carol Oates war möglicherweise vorher bestimmt. Ich fand nämlich heraus, dass wir am gleichen Tag Geburtstag haben, obwohl die Grand Dame des psychologischen Realismus natürlich wesentlich älter ist als ich. Vielleicht ist es nur mein närrisc...
Funny story: I brought Lark and Termite to read on my vacation, but I just could not work with it. Not at the airport, not on the plane, and, finally, not during the incredible crazy kinky drunken SUPER LOUD neighbours' Saturday night romp at the hotel. The next day I went to a used book store and p...
Despite the author's claim that events are "loosely" based on real individuals, this essentially could be the story told by the older brother of Jon Benet Ramsay, a decade later, who looks back at his young life during the time of his sister's life and death.What kept me interested in that I read th...
I picked this book up and started reading it three or four times before I actually managed to get into it. Once I did get into it I found I could not put it down. I read it over three days and found I couldn't wait to pick it up again. I loved how this book was written - footnotes and all because it...
Repetitive, intermittantly hilarious, corrosive as battery acid, My Sister, My Love is JonBenet Ramsey's story, told by Burke Ramsey, thinly disguised as 'Skyler Rampike' with the author herself lurking around the edges of the narrative. If the solution in the book is correct, then 5 stars for the...
14 years ago
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