Shameless

by Judy Collins

Overview

Catherine Saint, a promising rock photojournalist, is terrified when she realizes that someone is trying to kill her and must identify the murderer among her closest friends, associates, and lovers.

Peopled with music-world characters from the sixties to the present, Shameless is laced with the rhythm and imagery of Collins' most lyrical song-writing...and is a novel only she could create.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416587705
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	11/28/2007
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Judy Collins has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism for more than fifty years. She began her music career at thirteen and has recorded fifty albums. She is also a prominent social activist and a frequent keynote speaker on the subjects of mental health and suicide prevention. In addition to Singing Lessons, she has authored books including Sanity & Grace, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music, and Cravings.

Editorial Reviews

Singer, songwriter, political activist, UNICEF spokeswoman and actress Collins makes her debut as a novelist with this lackluster thriller set in the glamorous world of rock and roll. Narrator Catherine Saint has come a long way from her family farm in Kansas. A groupie turned freelance writer turned photographer, she is now a successful photojournalist with a fat bank account, a passionate lover and numerous famous friends and high-placed acquaintances. Soon after she hires an assistant to organize her schedule and pay her bills, however, Catherine finds herself knee-deep in trouble. She learns that her lover is having an affair, that her favorite band is having problems with drugs, that her former psychiatrist (who once raped her) is back on the scene-and that someone may want to kill her. With all her friends as suspects, Catherine struggles to keep herself together-and breathing-as she tries to achieve solid ground. Collins delivers some of what readers will expect (e.g., an inside look at the music industry), but much of the rest, including an engrossing plot, lies hidden deep within the jumbled ramblings of Catherine's dreams and of her obsessions with sex, drugs and rock and roll. Author tour. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Folksinger Collins is noted for her wonderful voice, but is she as handy with a pen as she is with a microphone? In her first novel, a rock'n'roll photojournalist is stalked by a killer. Atlantic Records plans to release Collins's Shameless music CD simultaneously.

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