num_pages: 272
description: A Harvard professor sentenced to die for the murder of two students, Bernadette O'Brien looks back on her life as a lonely, erotically charged genius who left her working class, Irish hometown in Massachusetts for the halls of academia. Reprint.
language: English
title: Defiance
titlecomplete: Defiance
genres: Feminism, Fiction, Novels, Womens, Thriller, Literature, Literary Fiction, American, Crime
ratings_count: 236
publisher: Plume