Bad Timing
- List Price: $23.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Villard Books
- Publish date: 02/13/2001
Description:
While Bad Timing is a woman's account of the beginning, middle, and end of an affair, it is not, its author maintains, a classic single-woman-in-Manhattan novel. "Men are not villains, women are not victims, and the narrator is not on a hysterical husband hunt", says Betsy Berne. "It is, I hope, about the complicity between the sexes". Unfolding over a single steamy summer in the small town of Manhattan's art, music, and magazine worlds, the novel takes place in a setting Berne knows well. An accomplished painter with works in numerous public and private collections, she has had pieces published in The New Yorker, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine, among others.
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Bad Timing's characters struggle to make sense of a world "where culture has become little more than merchandise and personalities". The novel's head-on confrontation of issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, morals, and family are bracing, provocative, and enlightening. The message? "Things are never what they seem to be", says Berne, adding, "Or don't judge a book -- or a girl -- by its cover".
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