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Bye-Bye lures us into the mind of a sexually adventurous New Yorker in her mid-30s haunted by memories of her mother and of her own failed marriage. Her too-perfect husband threw her out three years before the novel opens, because of her infidelities. Partly in an effort to wrench herself out of depression, she "disappears" by changing her appearance and assuming a false identity as Rose Anne Waldin, or Rosie. Rosie boasts three lovers: two women - one an S&M pornographer, the other an aloof "Personal Ad" - and one man, whom she meets at a book-burning. The books being burned are by a celebrated Chicano poet who (an angry public has discovered) was apparently never Chicano at all. The scandal involves an elusive performance artist known only as the "Andorgenie", whose identity-bending perversities mirror Rosie's. We gradually learn about Rosie's not-at-all-rosy past, of her compulsive, often darkly comic behavior, and of her obsession with murder. Soon it grows apparent that Rosie is preparing to commit some dramatic, possibly violent, act. Poking fun at the Soho scene, Bye-Bye explores what makes art Art at the end of the millennium. And it implicitly asks, what kind of aesthetic gesture can still deliver a serious punch in a mass-media culture infatuated with sex crimes and notoriety, without degenerating into a knee-jerk defense? Bye-Bye is itself of course one answer.
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- Title Bye-Bye
- Author Jane Ransom
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 198
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New York University Press, New York
- Date 1997
- ISBN 9780814774908 / 0814774903
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.49 x 4.8 x 0.73 in (19.02 x 12.19 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, New York (N.Y.) - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96051221
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/1997, Page 496
- Library Journal, 05/15/1997, Page 104
- Publishers Weekly, 04/21/1997, Page 61
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