![]() ![]() Cain lives in Portland and writes for The Oregonian), care about Gretchen? Because her editor is in the corniest kind of lather about Susan’s prospective Gretchen piece. Why does the reporter, the aggressively cute Susan Ward of The Oregon Herald in Portland (Ms. And great as in guaranteed to be inflicted on movie audiences some day. “Great, as in scary, brutal and cunning,” the reporter corrects herself, “not super-duper.” Also great as in actively involved in the book’s plot despite the Lecterish inconvenience of being in prison. Imagine Gretchen as an elegant seductress who looks chic in handcuffs, speaks fluent cliché (“I don’t like to be ignored”), enjoys making others drink drain cleaner and can extract three meters of human intestine. “She was one of our great psychopaths,” an awestruck young reporter says half-appreciatively about Gretchen Lowell in Chelsea Cain’s “Heartsick.” Gretchen is the foxy killer who Hannibal Lecterizes her way through a derivative, sadistic book that somehow aspires to the debonair. ![]()
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