
Love Bomb
Author: Lisa Zeidner
Narrator: Kate Rudd
Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/04/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Author: Lisa Zeidner
Narrator: Kate Rudd
Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/04/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Lisa Zeidner has published four novels, including the critically acclaimed Layover, and two books of poems. Her stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, GQ, Tin House, and elsewhere. She directs the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
When an intimate suburban wedding is interrupted by an armed woman wearing a gas mask, wedding gown and steel toed boots, the guests assume it is a joke. Only as the woman confiscates their mobile phones and explains the back door is wired with explosives does the reality of the surreal situation se......more
Starting with a terrific, offbeat premise worthy of Christopher Moore -- the amusing interruption of a home wedding by a bridal gown-dressed, fully armed woman -- the novel devolves into a series of lengthy backgrounders on several of the guests and the hostage taker herself. The quick pace of the s......more
Amusing comic novel about a terrorist at a wedding. She storms up the aisle in a wedding dress with a bomb and takes all the wedding guests hostage. The guests are largely comprised of psychologists and psychiatrists, which makes up a lot of the book's humor (as they all try to deconstruct the terro......more
I loved all the little tidbits into the many characters' lives. It felt more like a collection of short stories that overlapped versus a more typical novel. The group of hostages were certainly vexing. While there was no need for all the psychiatrists, it was important to show the contrast. Helen was......more
A masked terrorist takes a wedding hostage in Lisa Zeidner's LOVE BOMB. Zeidner wisely doesn't keep us trapped in the home in which the wedding's taking place, expanding on the themes of such a celebration (as well as the terrorist's soon-to-be-revealed motives) to flashback to many of her character......more