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ridgewaygirl 's review for:
Rust & Stardust
by T. Greenwood
This is a fictionalized (and largely imagined) account of the 1948 kidnapping of Sally Horner, reporting on which is thought to be part of what inspired Vladimir Nabokov to write his most famous novel. Greenwood takes the known facts of Horner's story to imagine what her months being held captive were like and to tell the story from the points of view of Sally and the members of her family, as well as a few others who knew Sally during her time with Frank LaSalle.
This was a sensational case, but Greenwood takes care to focus on the emotional impact for all those affected and to explain why Sally believes LaSalle's lies. This is pretty straight-forward historical fiction and Greenwood isn't trying to do anything ground-breaking except to tell a story well and in this she largely succeeds, with a story that certainly held my interest throughout.
This was a sensational case, but Greenwood takes care to focus on the emotional impact for all those affected and to explain why Sally believes LaSalle's lies. This is pretty straight-forward historical fiction and Greenwood isn't trying to do anything ground-breaking except to tell a story well and in this she largely succeeds, with a story that certainly held my interest throughout.