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Ride A Cockhorse (2003)

by Raymond Kennedy(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

158465337X (ISBN13: 9781584653370)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

University Press of New England

review 1: I thought this novel was hilarious, and that Frankie Fitzgibbons, a formerly sedate home loan officer who goes on a manic rampage and commandeers a small town bank, was deliciously entertaining. The novel gets a bit tiresome, as it probably must, since Frankie's mania gives her such an inflated sense of her own command of language that she rants virtually nonstop throughout the novel, and she can't help repeating herself. Still, a very funny look at the way people are drawn to, and seduced by, a powerful personality who decides to chuck the rules and use wild, over the top tactics to mow down everyone in her way. I couldn't resist her.
review 2: I feel ambivalent about this book. On the one hand, it's a very clever satire of the greed and aggressive capitalism ... moreof the 1990s. An attractive widow, a mild-mannered bank loan officer, undergoes an unexplanied transformation one day and becomes a man-eating megalomaniac. There are two hilarious sex scenes. But the protagonist's rampage goes on too long and the novel becomes progressively darker and less funny. less

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