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Defiance

By Carole Maso Dutton, 264 pp., S23.95

There will be side shows,' promises Carole Maso's sixth book, Defiance. Behind bars and on display is Bernadette, a former child prodigy who began her university studies at age 12, racing up the academic track to become a Harvard professor of physics hardly older than her students. Surrounding her, as a "treacherous chorus;' are "aui italicized voices,"an amalgam of internalized personalities that in real life have tried to reign her in.

Bernadette, we learn, has murdered nvo male students-each act a coda to ritualistic sex. The first she strangles as he drifts in postcoital bliss. The second comes days later, sloppily, as a kind of ...

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