| Regarding Collectors, Publisher’s Weekly asked readers to “[think] of Damage and other novels that lace tension with frightening sexual overtones, then add the advantage of literary style and assurance, and you have this mysterious, mesmerizing story of psychological suspense.” People called the book “spellbinding” and Greg Burkman of The Seattle Times called it “Superb… Psychologically erudite, stylistically cool and impeccable.” It’s the story of a woman’s dangerous fascination with a seductive, mysterious man. At her cousin’s wedding, Jean Duprez, an advertising-agency art director who specialzes in effective but unsettling concepts for her clients, meets a handsome stranger named Steven Cain. What follows is the story of a relationship so ominious and puzzling that the reader is drawn into the author’s designs as inevitably, and as helplessly, as Jean is drawn to Steven. |
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Of Follow Me, Paul Griner’s debut collection of stories, renowned writer Tobias Wolff said that it was “one of the most vivid, distinctive collections that [he had] read in years . . . [A] first book [that] is a present joy, and a bright promise.” Ruth Heller, writing for the Library Journal, referred to it as “an excellent collection”; George Needham, writing for Booklist, says that “Griner strikes pay dirt in this superb collection . . . This collection of striking, closely observed stories deserves a large and appreciative audience.” Through the ten stories of this collection, Griner offers his readers a view of America that is at once completely recognizable and completely suprising. Populated by desperate drifters, igeniously cruel women, doctors who damage their own children, and aged car thieves, the stories of Follow Me take the reader, with candor, insight, and humor, to the margins of American Life. |