Her entry begins:
I got the idea for her when I saw the first model with gray hair in a clothing catalog. Brigid Quinn, the heroine of Rage Against the Dying, is fifty-nine years old, and prematurely white from her days as an undercover FBI agent. She wears that hair in a long ponytail, flaunting it, maybe as kind of a badge of honor. She's a small woman, but physically vibrant, and hides her heart with a tough, earthy style and acerbic wit. These days she's trying to fit into newly-married life in Tucson and prevent her book club from discovering she can still kill a man with her bare hands. Publishers Weekly compared her to...[read on]Learn more about Rage Against the Dying at the publisher's website.
My Book, The Movie: Rage Against the Dying.
--Marshal Zeringue
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