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The stake in the game.
- Title
- The stake in the game.
- Author
- Berckman, Evelyn.
- Publication
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1973.
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Details
- Description
- 206 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In between period entertainments, Evelyn Berckman writes a kind of interpersonal suspense story where destruction is accomplished without violence. Some are better than others. (This is one of the others since her main thesis -- a variant of the "Oh what a tangled web": once having lied, one is "tethered" to the stake) -- is never quite clinched. Heather, hesitant Heather, dismissed and excluded by her husband, first lies to cover for her sister's adultery. From then on she is in and out of another kind of mess involving her son and her au pair girl and there are successive revelations and reverses. More womanly than feminine but managing a certain insight to spoonfeed the story. (Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 1972).
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- ISBN
- 0385052855
- 9780385052856
- LCCN
- 72084889
- OCLC
- ocm00584035
- 584035
- SCSB-969048
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library