num_pages: 384
description: Her mother makes love to strangers and chooses the worst kind of friends.  Her classmates talk of going to college, but Madeleine, with a scholarship waiting at an Ivy League school, knows that escape is unlikely.  For Maddy's life revolves around one her jealous, raging, promiscuous mother.And now that Maddy has a lover of her own, now that her mother's delusion-filled, grudge-filled, lover-filled life is crashing down around them, now that Maddy knows leaving would be the deadliest blow of all, there is only one way through a terrifying, disastrous moment that will change everything forever....  In her explosive novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner issued a chilling wake-up call to a generation intoxicated by sexual freedom.  Now the New York Times bestselling author explores another fatal in this unforgettable novel of mother-daughter love gone torturously, tragically wrong.
language: English
title: Perfidia
titlecomplete: Perfidia
genres: Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 171
publisher: Island Books