![]() ![]() ![]() The Lola Quartet, who take their name from the German film Run Lola Run, are four teenagers living in Sebastian, Florida, where they attend a magnet arts high school. All three books involve crime, drug use, particularly pills, and the type of law officers who carry guns but rarely badges. Mandel’s characters divide into three categories: the young fleeing women, the distraught lovers they leave behind, who inevitably search for them, and the individuals-family members, friends, parents, children - caught up in situations created by the women, situations beyond their control. All seek the silent distance of night, when human interaction is limited. These young women land briefly in small towns, where they live in cheap motels, picking up work as waitressses or dishwashers, often on the night shift. Mandel is a writer obessesed with young women on the margins of society, young women who leave indifferent parents to slip anonymously across the country on buses, their hair dyed, their names changed. John Mandel’s third novel, The Lola Quartet, picks up the threads of her previous two works, Last Night In Montreal and The Singer’s Gun. ![]()
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