Pursued by the Crooked Man Author:Susan Trott The author of The Housewife and the Assassin again reveals an indomitable spirit in a hunted, housebound woman. — Maximiliana Bartha, the quirky protagonist of this tragicomic novel, believes that her estranged husband, an underworld figure, is stalking her. She is firmly convinced as well that Mother Goose has appeared to her, and she c... more »hannels Mother Goose's "true" intentions through a series of interpretive essays on the legendary nursery rhymes. Her metamorphosis from a gorgeous but shallow and frightened woman to a disfigured, fearless heroine is ripe with worthy, affecting morals and implications on betrayal both physical (the body) and emotional (the perfidy of friends and lovers), and on the fragility but essential triviality of the corporeal.« less