Defiance
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Carole Maso.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Harvard University -- Fiction.; College students -- Crimes against -- Fiction.; Women college teachers -- Fiction.; Physics teachers -- Fiction.; Women murderers -- Fiction.; Gifted children -- Fiction.; Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Her name is Bernadette O'Brien. The unhappy child born into a working-class Irish Catholic family. The misfit and girl-genius, who entered the halls of academic privilege at the age of twelve and rose within its ranks to become a respected professor of physics at Harvard.The defiant woman, inspired in a most scrumptious occasion of sin to commit an extraordinary crime.

The Death Row celebrity sentenced to die in the electric chair for the shocking sexual murder of two of her most promising male students, her sweet phallocentrics. In her journal (my death book), Bernadette takes a dark and resolute look back at the unfolding events that led to the horrific crimes for which she stood trial. For which she was condemned and for which she is now caged to dream, to imagine, to confess.