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Punch and Juliette are in love. Juliette is a twenty-two-year-old blonde waitress in the Cracker Barrel. Punch is a forty-four-year-old black guitar player and alcoholic , who dreamed of writing the great American novel. Then Juliette's daddy died and left them a little money. So they've come to Key West for one last summer. Juliette's going to spend her inheritance on buying Punch time to write his novel. She's going to be his muse and they're going to have fun fun fun, right up until the summer ends and then they're going to commit suicide.
Hendricks' last book, the acclaimed Iguana Love, was an unflinching look at sexual obsession. Voluntary Madness is an unflinching look at the madness of love. Funny, colorful and erotic as ever, this a truly one-off love story-a sly and sexy riff on the Hemingway myth of the anguished, lonely writer.
Praise for Iguana Love:
"No one writes better than Hendricks in this tale of a dissatisfied wife who falls in with the wrong scuba-diving crowd. Guaranteed to raise your temperature, whatever the weather."-The Guardian
"The dead diviners of noir's masculine psyche-Chandler, Hammett and Cain-might be shocked. But Hendricks is their first true female equivalent."-Independent on Sunday
Marketing for Voluntary Madness:
oAuthor appearances at mystery conventions including Bouchercon
oAutographed bookplates available
Vicki Hendricks lives in Hollywood, Florida, and teaches composition and creative writing at Broward Community College. With a taste for adventure, she is an experienced scuba and sky diver.
Hendricks' last book, the acclaimed Iguana Love, was an unflinching look at sexual obsession. Voluntary Madness is an unflinching look at the madness of love. Funny, colorful and erotic as ever, this a truly one-off love story-a sly and sexy riff on the Hemingway myth of the anguished, lonely writer.
Praise for Iguana Love:
"No one writes better than Hendricks in this tale of a dissatisfied wife who falls in with the wrong scuba-diving crowd. Guaranteed to raise your temperature, whatever the weather."-The Guardian
"The dead diviners of noir's masculine psyche-Chandler, Hammett and Cain-might be shocked. But Hendricks is their first true female equivalent."-Independent on Sunday
Marketing for Voluntary Madness:
oAuthor appearances at mystery conventions including Bouchercon
oAutographed bookplates available
Vicki Hendricks lives in Hollywood, Florida, and teaches composition and creative writing at Broward Community College. With a taste for adventure, she is an experienced scuba and sky diver.
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From the Back Cover:
"Voluntary Madness is that rare creature, a book you don't want to finish, but
when it does, it leaves you with an ending that doesn't disappoint."
--Time Out (London)
"Voluntary Madness is my favorite Vicki Hendricks novel. Sexy, gritty and raw,
yet at the same time intelligent and touching, Voluntary Madness proves Vicki
Hendricks is the queen of noir ...This is a hardboiled book, with vivid, tough
prose and crime elements that build as the tale progresses, but the genius of the
story is the novel's struggle to differentiate between art and life, and the conflict
inherent when these terms become mutually exclusive. A quick and frank read
with the ability to cull weak readers from the literary herd."
--Victor Gischler, author of Gun Monkeys and Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
"Voluntary Madness is a loosely updated and modern Bonnie and Clyde story
taking place on the Florida Keys. This is a masterfully written novel, a noir erotica
classic! The writing is tough, gritty, graphic, and leaves you disoriented. This is
one of those books you can't put down, and it takes you on one hell of a ride."
--Dave Zeltserman, author of Fast Lane and Bad Thoughts
"Voluntary Madness seems less noir than an homage to On the Road. There is
that total hedonistic mission [its protagonists] Punch and Juliette have, where
even their deaths are intended to be an act of rebellion. And yet, unlike Sal
Paradise [narrator of On the Road], Juliette realizes there's something else. It's a
long, hard journey to that point."
--Jim Winters, author of Edged in Blue
"In Voluntary Madness Hendricks spins a tale of excess and eroticism in this
darkly slanted slice of life on the edge."
--Kirkus UK
"Vicki Hendricks is the high priestess of neo-noir. A fierce and fearless talent."
--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
"Hendricks may be the least commercial but most literary of Florida crime
writers. Her stories evoke Flannery O'Connor and Erskine Caldwell."
--Booklist.
"Vicki Hendricks' novels ... are all Florida noir thrillers, absolutely steeped in
scorching sunshine, sweat, sex and murder. There's no one else like
her."--welovethisbook.com
"Hendricks writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Anais Nin."
--Ft. Myers News-Press
"Vicki Hendricks is one wild dame. She goes places the rest of us have never been,
don't even know the way to; and she comes back with stories that prove that
everyone's lonely, everyone's trying, and everyone's human."
--S.J. Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author of The Shanghai Moon
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when it does, it leaves you with an ending that doesn't disappoint."
--Time Out (London)
"Voluntary Madness is my favorite Vicki Hendricks novel. Sexy, gritty and raw,
yet at the same time intelligent and touching, Voluntary Madness proves Vicki
Hendricks is the queen of noir ...This is a hardboiled book, with vivid, tough
prose and crime elements that build as the tale progresses, but the genius of the
story is the novel's struggle to differentiate between art and life, and the conflict
inherent when these terms become mutually exclusive. A quick and frank read
with the ability to cull weak readers from the literary herd."
--Victor Gischler, author of Gun Monkeys and Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
"Voluntary Madness is a loosely updated and modern Bonnie and Clyde story
taking place on the Florida Keys. This is a masterfully written novel, a noir erotica
classic! The writing is tough, gritty, graphic, and leaves you disoriented. This is
one of those books you can't put down, and it takes you on one hell of a ride."
--Dave Zeltserman, author of Fast Lane and Bad Thoughts
"Voluntary Madness seems less noir than an homage to On the Road. There is
that total hedonistic mission [its protagonists] Punch and Juliette have, where
even their deaths are intended to be an act of rebellion. And yet, unlike Sal
Paradise [narrator of On the Road], Juliette realizes there's something else. It's a
long, hard journey to that point."
--Jim Winters, author of Edged in Blue
"In Voluntary Madness Hendricks spins a tale of excess and eroticism in this
darkly slanted slice of life on the edge."
--Kirkus UK
"Vicki Hendricks is the high priestess of neo-noir. A fierce and fearless talent."
--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
"Hendricks may be the least commercial but most literary of Florida crime
writers. Her stories evoke Flannery O'Connor and Erskine Caldwell."
--Booklist.
"Vicki Hendricks' novels ... are all Florida noir thrillers, absolutely steeped in
scorching sunshine, sweat, sex and murder. There's no one else like
her."--welovethisbook.com
"Hendricks writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Anais Nin."
--Ft. Myers News-Press
"Vicki Hendricks is one wild dame. She goes places the rest of us have never been,
don't even know the way to; and she comes back with stories that prove that
everyone's lonely, everyone's trying, and everyone's human."
--S.J. Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author of The Shanghai Moon
Vicki Hendricks lives in Miami, Florida, where she teaches English and creative writing. A fan of dangerous sports, she took up sky-diving to research Sky Blues and has since completed 550 skydives. She also learned to dogsled in Finland and has been birding in the jungles of Costa Rica.
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- Publication date2000
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