Word: leimbach
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Marti Leimbach...
This premise promises a grim and lugubrious read. So publishing eyebrows shot up last summer when this novel, Marti Leimbach's first, pulled in some $500,000 in advances, including a movie deal with 20th Century Fox. These are uncommon bucks for a beginning writer. What gives...
...Dying Young makes its way into bookstores, all that money begins to look like a canny investment. There has always been a healthy market for doomed romance. Furthermore, this novel plays upon a current preoccupation -- explicitly stated in its title -- without raising the troubling specter of AIDS. Finally, Leimbach, 26, proves herself to be both a deft writer and a shrewd judge of just how much sentimentality her traffic will bear...
...also has the chance to live out a fantasy: two men devoted to her, one of them virile and the other literally dying in her arms. Whether Leimbach intends Hilary to be as dim-witted as she seems is immaterial. The trick finally works. Near the end, something dawns on Hilary that is not a truism. As Victor's imminent death begins to seem real to her, she realizes that he "has made it seem that the future of a relationship is not as important as I once imagined." It would be nice to hear Victor on whether dying...