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# Bad Marie Paperback – June 22, 2010

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From Publishers Weekly
        	  
        	  
        		  
        		  
	        		
						
			        		Dermansky follows her lauded debut, Twins, with a trite tail about an ex-con&apos;s unlikely re-entry to the world. After serving six years for harboring a fugitive--her bank robber boyfriend--30-year-old Marie is released and misses the decisionless ease of prison life. She finds work as a live-in nanny (nothing like a felon watching your pride and joy) for two-and-a-half-year-old Caitlin, the daughter of her childhood best friend, Ellen, with whom she has a rocky, competitive relationship. In a hard-to-believe coincidence, Ellen is married to the French author, Beno&#xEE;t Doniel, whose book Marie read repeatedly while in prison, and soon enough, Beno&#xEE;t and Marie kick off an affair and decide to run away to Paris together with Caitlin. But when Beno&#xEE;t&apos;s true colors are displayed before even landing in the City of Lights (thanks to another unbelievable coincidence), Marie finds herself taking on the role of a single mother in a strange land, though her travails never really impede on her relatively charmed streak. It&apos;s off-putting how heavily the plot relies on implausible twists, and Marie is too sketchily drawn to carry the full weight of the story. Copyright &#xA9; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
						    	
					    	
						
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        	  	  From Booklist
        	  
        	  
        		  
        		  
	        		
						
			        		Dermansky follows her bold debut, Twins (2005), with a wickedly nihilistic and suspenseful tale of erotic mayhem. Impulsive, larcenous, and utterly self-absorbed, not to mention vampishly beautiful, Marie rather liked prison, where she could read her favorite book, a novel by a French author named Beno&#xEE;t Doniel, over and over. Her handsome young Mexican lover and inept accomplice hung himself in jail, and her mother won&apos;t even pick her up, so upon her release, Marie heads for her old friend Ellen&apos;s swanky New York apartment. Smug Ellen knows how dangerous Marie is, yet she desperately needs a nanny for her precocious toddler daughter, Caitlin. As for her husband, it&apos;s none other than Beno&#xEE;t Doniel. Bewitching and commanding, Dermansky creates a template for either a comedy of sexual errors or an all-out tragedy, then keeps readers guessing until the very end. Set in New York, Paris, the Riviera, and Mexico, this is an edgy, speedy, stylish, unpredictable, funny, and heart-stopping tale of a damaged soul who finally finds love in the clear-eyed intelligence, trust, and joy of a child. --Donna Seaman
						    	
					    	
						
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        	  	  Review
        	  
        	  
        		  
        		  
	        		
						
			        		&#x201C;Marcy Dermansky&#x2019;s slim picaresque follows the misadventures of a nanny who absconds to Paris with her charge and the toddler&#x2019;s dashing father. Marie is the amoral engineer of multiple train wrecks, but in Dermansky&#x2019;s hands she&#x2019;s somehow irresistible.&#x201D; (Time magazine)&#x201C;Dermansky does proud the long, often sketchy, sometimes illustrious tradition of transgressive fiction with BAD MARIE . . . Her Marie is no cry-baby Anna Karenina fated to a star-crossed love for which she pays with her life.&#x201D; (Elle)&#x201C;Not enough women write novels like this one. Dermansky is funny and fearless. I like Marie so much because she seems to care so little whether I like her or not. That&#x2019;s a working definition of badass. Bad Marie is one.&#x201D; (Esquire)&#x201C;[Marie is] an antiheroine for our time . . . A page-turning melodrama told with chilled cosmopolitan irony, the moral puzzles at the heart of BAD MARIE linger after the delicious meringue of the book has been consumed. Cool trick, Ms. Dermansky.&#x201D; (Newsday)&#x201C;Deliciously wicked.&#x201D; (Slate)&#x201C;I didn&#x2019;t want to finish this book any time soon, didn&#x2019;t want to emerge from its dark and wondrous world. My God, what a writer -- absolutely unpredictable, wild with intellect, spilling with charm and sadness and humanity. Marie, the main character here, is literary gold, worthy of Flaubert.&#x201D; (Mary Robison)&#x201C;Marcy Dermansky&#x2019;s BAD MARIE is so very very bad that I enjoyed every word. A tour de force in mounting suspense as its witless narrator and the baby she&#x2019;s stolen careen from one all-too-probable disaster to the next. Delicious.&#x201D; (Terese Svoboda, author of Cannibal and Pirate Talk or Mermelade)&#x201C;By positing a character who&#x2019;s indulged in all of the deadly sins, Dermansky challenges the reader to finally and forever denounce her character Marie. The fact that this reader can&#x2019;t is testament to the book&#x2019;s power and smarts. A naughty pleasure, a philosophical romp, heady hedonism: what could be better?&#x201D; (Antonya Nelson, author of Nothing Right)&#x201C;[BAD MARIE is] sinful in all the right ways, delicate, seditious, and deliciously evil.&#x201D; (Frederick Barthelme)&#x201C;Marcy Dermansky makes it easy to love Marie, a husband-stealing, baby-snatching, underachieving ex-con . . . Fast-paced and unsentimental, BAD MARIE blazes with life.&#x201D; (Barb Johnson, author of More of This World or Maybe Another)
						    	
					    	
						
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        	  	  From the Back Cover
        	  
        	  
        		  
        		  
	        		
						
			        		Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is as a nanny for her childhood friend Ellen Kendall, an upwardly mobile Manhattan executive whose mother employed Marie&apos;s mother as a housekeeper. After Marie moves in with Ellen, Ellen&apos;s angelic baby Caitlin, and Ellen&apos;s husband, a very attractive French novelist named Benoit Doniel, things get complicated, and almost before she knows what she&apos;s doing, Marie has absconded to Paris with both Caitlin and Benoit Doniel. On the run and out of her depth, Marie will travel to distant shores and experience the highs and lows of foreign culture, lawless living, and motherhood as she figures out how to be an adult; how deeply she can love; and what it truly means to be &quot;bad&quot;.
						    	
					    	
						
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        	  	  About the Author
        	  
        	  
        		  
        		  
	        		
						
			        		Marcy Dermansky is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story magazine&#x2019;s Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeney&#x2019;s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Indiana Review. Dermansky is a film critic for About.com and lives in Astoria, New York.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Marcy Dermansky is a jarring yet haunting author and Bad Marie is proof that she's a master of the ...
  

*by L***X on January 5, 2017*









  
  
    Marcy Dermansky is a jarring yet haunting author and Bad Marie is proof that she's a master of the fiction form. Don't be put off by the specific stylistic choice of all the narration and dialogue using fully uncontracted words and formal language (read Twins by Dermansky for another great read in a more traditional dialogue) - this books is one of the rare pieces of fiction that presents a sharply painted unlivable protagonist, without ever once trying to blunt her edges, OR explain why her edges refuse to be blunt. Instead, Marie and her inner monologue offer the most searingly realistic portrayal of how most of us make our decisions: as we go, sans the good vs. evil monologue that grounds us away from unlikability.I've never read a book like this before and recommend it to everyone. It's a quick read and left me fulfilled and challenged.
  


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    Enjoyable, if implausible
  

*by E***. on October 14, 2016*









  
  
    I picked this book up a couple of years ago thinking it would be similar to a book I'd just read and loved, When We Were Friends: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle), which is similarly about a woman changed after running away with someone else’s young child. I read this with the other book in mind, so I’ll write my review the same way…Both Marie and Lainey from When We Were Friends have damaged childhoods (the damage to Lainey was caused by a twisted childhood friendship, and here by Marie’s own mistakes and the consequences of those mistakes.) Both books have a wonderful sense of humor, but also pain behind it, which is a powerful combination.I would say this book is almost as good, and that is saying a lot! Marie is highly likable, despite her obvious faults, although she’s never quite relatable which does make the story a bit harder to swallow. Marie’s character is also not quite as well developed as Lainey’s, but because this is not as much an emotionally-driven novel, I didn’t find that bothering me at all.Overall, I’d say this book held my interest, and although parts had me shaking my head (there were a few too many coincidences that pulled me out of the book, and I was especially unsatisfied by the ending) I never lost that interest and was able to finish the book in under two days. Giving this book a solid 3.5 stars. (How I wish Amazon would allow this!)
  


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    I loved Bad Marie !
  

*by C***Y on August 4, 2019*









  
  
    Dermansky is one of the best authors I have read in a long time.  Bad Marie was astounding.  I breezed through this and didn't want it to end!  You'll want to actively dislike Marie.  But you won't be able to.  She is child-like, impulsive, lusty for exquisite meals and for men that belong to others.  After a complex set of circumstances, Marie finds herself on the run with the 2 1/2 year old daughter of her childhood friend and former employer.  We follow her to France and then Mexico.  This tale was all consuming.  Every character a treat, even the toddler, Caitlin.  An unforgettable book from a truly unique writer.  Dermansky is sharp, her characters are real, fallible, complex and above all, fuuny.
  


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