The Seducer: A Novel

by Claudia Moscovici

Overview

This psychological thriller shows both the hypnotic appeal and the deadly danger of psychopathic seduction. This novel traces the downfall of a married woman, Ana. Feeling trapped in a lackluster marriage, she has a torrid affair with Michael, a man who seems to be her soul mate and her dream come true. Having already tired of his fiancée, Karen—in spite of the fact she does everything possible to please him and keep him in her life—the seducer moves on to his next prey. Although initially torn between love for her family and her passion for Michael, Ana eventually relents to her lover’s pressure. That’s when Michael’s “mask of sanity” unpeels to reveal the monstrously selfish psychopath underneath. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, The Seducer shows that true love can be found in our ordinary lives rather than in flimsy fantasies masquerading as great passions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761858089
Publisher:	Hamilton Books
Publication date:	12/21/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	559 KB

About the Author

Claudia Moscovici is a Romanian-American fiction writer and art/literary critic. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Velvet Totalitarianism (2009), as well as Dangerous Liaisons (2011), a nonfiction book on psychopathic social predators. She has also written several scholarly books on Romantic art and literature, including Romanticism and Postromanticism (2007).

What People are Saying About This

D. R. Popa

In her exciting second novel, The Seducer, Claudia Moscovici depicts with talent and psychological accuracy the spellbinding power of these charming yet dangerous Don Juans. (D. R. Popa, author of Lady V and Other Stories)

Steve Becker

Like the best, most delicious novels, Claudia Moscovici's psychological thriller, The Seducer, grips you in its opening pages and holds you in its addictive clutches straight through to its dramatic, remarkable conclusion. This is a fascinating novel, on every page of which Moscovici's intimate understanding of the psychology of psychopaths and their victims gleams with a laser's concentrated brilliance. (Steve Becker, MSW, LCSW, LoveFraud.com feature columnist, expert on narcissism and psychopathy)

Carmen Firan

The Seducer probes the chilling depths of alienation and selfishness as the heroine, Ana, is caught in the spider's web of her narcissistic lover, Michael. . . . A powerful novel about an unfortunate reality many women face. (Carmen Firan, author of Words and Flesh)

Edward K. Kaplan

Moscovici's new psychological thriller, The Seducer, reminds us of classics like Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, but with a contemporary twist. The new seducer is a psychopath, a dangerous predator without genuine emotion. . . . The narrative is bold, vivid, and lucid. (Edward K. Kaplan, professor in the humanities at Brandeis University)

Editorial Reviews

Like the best, most delicious novels, Claudia Moscovici’s psychological thriller, The Seducer, grips you in its opening pages and holds you in its addictive clutches straight through to its dramatic, remarkable conclusion. This is a fascinating novel, on every page of which Moscovici’s intimate understanding of the psychology of psychopaths and their victims gleams with a laser’s concentrated brilliance.

Steve Becker

The Seducer probes the chilling depths of alienation and selfishness as the heroine, Ana, is caught in the spider’s web of her narcissistic lover, Michael.. .. A powerful novel about an unfortunate reality many women face.

Carmen Firan

In her exciting second novel, The Seducer, Claudia Moscovici depicts with talent and psychological accuracy the spellbinding power of these charming yet dangerous Don Juans.

D. R. Popa

Moscovici’s new psychological thriller, The Seducer, reminds us of classics like Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, but with a contemporary twist. The new seducer is a psychopath, a dangerous predator without genuine emotion.. .. The narrative is bold, vivid, and lucid.

Edward K. Kaplan