A noir page-turner that digs into the darkest corners of the human heart, Rotten Peaches dissects the lives of Leone and Berenice, women who live continents apart but are linked by the attentions of a charismatic con man, JayRay. Leone, a kleptomaniac chemist for an up and coming cosmetics company in Toronto, juggles her trade show junkets with a taste for petty theft and an abusive affair with JayRay. Meanwhile, in South Africa, JayRay's half-sister Berenice, author of a best-selling series of self-help baking books based on recipes she's appropriated from her black housekeeper, is in love with a man committed to returning South Africa to white control. Slowly the two stories begin to merge: as one woman struggles for redemption and self-knowledge, the other slips into a whirlpool of deception and violence. Lisa de Nikolits succeeds in creating a disturbing, mesmerizing tale in which the boundaries of good and evil, justice and punishment, are blurred by family secrets, racism, and sexual obsession.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 822.92
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- f-sa---
- ISBN
- 9781771335294 1771335327 1771335297 9781771335317 1771335319 9781771335300 9781771335324
- LCCN
- PR6054.E16
- LCCN Item number
- D47 2018eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- YDX
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (339 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239828 (OCoLC)1078550109 (CaOOCEL)457457
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- leonie 16
- 1. leonie 22
- 2. bernice 30
- 3. leonie 32
- 4. bernice 48
- 5. leonie 58
- 6. bernice 65
- 7. leonie 74
- 8. bernice 78
- 9. leonie 90
- 10. bernice 109
- 11. leonie 114
- 12. bernice 121
- 13. leonie 127
- 14. bernice 132
- 15. leonie 139
- 16. bernice 144
- 17. 152
- 18. 166
- 19. 170
- 20. 173
- 21. 176
- 22. 183
- 23. 187
- 24. 196
- 25. 200
- 26. 206
- 27. 216
- 28. 223
- 29. 230
- 30. 240
- 31. 244
- 32. 247
- 33. 249
- 34. 255
- 35. 256
- 36. 259
- 37. 269
- 38. 282
- 39. 292
- 40. 299
- 41. 304
- 42. 315
- 43. leonie 328
- 44. bernice 332
- 45. leonie 341
- acknowledgements 350
