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Novels:Making Love “The sizzling new sensation! Sex sells and this is a sure bestseller.” “This is Norman Bogner’s best!” “Funny and poignant.” “Bitter but honest.” “Bogner’s best yet.” "Mr. Bogner's characters are riotously alive and keep our interest to the last, not only because he has such a swooping eye for detail and idiosyncrasies, but because he pities people who pursue and fail to understand why it disappoints them." |
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Spanish Fever "Moments of comic inspiration." "Outragerous philandering and earthy humour..." |
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The Madonna Complex "Mr. Bogner's people claw themselves and each other to death and he describes their progress in thick powerful prose. It is a work of highly individual talent." "A sexy book...all the pathos, greed and grief, longing and impatience, holiness and obscenity, depravity and creativity of human sexuality...an exquisite and moving, terrifying and haunting multifaceted novel." "A ruthless billionaire tycoon is driven to possess a beautiful but flawed younger woman with a mind of her own in this psychodrama. Although Teddy Franklin casually buys and sells S&P 500 companies, he is stymied by Barbara Hickman, with whom he is completely obsessed...[An] engrossing tale, furnished with explicit sex scenes....long on atmosphere...plays on fantasies of high stakes living in the moneyed circles of New York." "An entertaining tale centering on the potential destructiveness of obsession. The story line is more of a character study than a thriller as Norman Bogner provides a deep look into Teddy and Barbara’s thought processes and inner gut emotions. Graphic sex scenes...add to the overall feel of the reader being an observer...the obsession which is the main story line brilliantly works, leading to a fabulous absorbing look at extreme behavior." “Gripping ... compulsive readability ... as sophisticated as anyone could desire ... clearly Bogner understands women as not many men do.” Brilliant expose of obsessive love and lightning glimpses into a woman’s soul.” “A study in sex, greed, power ... an unusual book of great readability.” “A femme fatale to make all her fiction predecessors seem like pillars of the Women’s Institute.” |
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Honor Thy Wife "This intricately plotted novel of family intrigue and ungovernable desire has all the ingredients for a compelling beach read: sex, love, lies, betrayal, hatred, revenge, threats of murder and eventual wish-fulfillment for an all-American guy...[A]ll the threads are satisfyingly tied up."
"A highly involved [novel] whose title's irony is clear when criminal lawyer Terry Brett shows himself willing to honor both of his wives...Good storytelling." |
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7th Avenue "Norman Bogner has created characters who are real, capable of being loved, hated, pitied, and above all, believed. His work is about hunger and passion, sex and love, hatred and revenge, pity and disgust, dissipation and nobility. It is life." |
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The Deadliest Art "There's charm and humor and suspense to be found... [and a] shocker of a finale... Bogner's eloquent descriptions... are a fascinating combination of gut-wrenching violence and gut-busting commentary on the contemporary art scene." |
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To Die In Provence
“When you pick up To Die in Provence, you won’t put it down until you’ve finished it. This fast-paced, suspenseful, psychological thriller is a real page turner, one that kept me on the edge of my chair right to the end. Norman Bogner has drawn extraordinary portraits of two young psychopathic killers who are all too frighteningly real. At the same time he has painted an evocative picture of Aix-en-Provence right down to the taste and smells as well as the Cézanne-like vistas. Well written and skillfully plotted, the novel is bound to hit the bestseller lists.” “Norman Bogner writes like the devil: scary, intriguing, full of passion, wit, and real seductive. His murder most foul is complex and a great read, an intelligent and spine-tingling thriller. It’s gourmet stuff concocted by a great chef: it goes down like escargot with a good Pouilly-Fuisse -- rich fare which you’ll enjoy immensely.” “Perfumes, scents, essences of Provence; take deep intoxicating breaths while reading.” “To Die in Provence is about some of my favorite subjects: women, food, murder and France. Having lived there myself, I can say that Norman Bogner has captured in this brilliantly written novel of suspense, the sights, flavors and smells of Provence. He has created a remarkable detective and one of the most perverse, frightening villains in contemporary fiction. I couldn’t put it down. Plan to stay up all night.” “To Die in Provence is a great read. You can almost taste the flavors and aromas of Provence, almost sit on a terrace and feel the sun. And in the Garden of Eden is a human snake, one of the most terrifying killers to appear in years.” “I’ve read Norman Bogner’s To Die in Provence and I must say, he scores a scary bull’s eye with this one, like a baguette straight to the heart. I know I’ll be thinking of “Boy” for some time to come and looking over my shoulder whenever I do. Move over, Hannibal Lector, and pass the brie!” “Like the recipes over which his characters feud and obsess, Norman Bogner’s To Die in Provence is wonderfully delicious, immensely satisfying and so rich that the reader is left sated but, at its end, already hungering for Bogner’s next feast. I was there, in Provence, while reading this book. With wit, elegance and insight, Bogner weaves a stunning tale of murder which -- in stark contrast to the pleasure of being transported to Aix-en-Provence and the delight of getting to know his wonderfully quirky characters -- is sure to haunt and chill even the most hardened crime novel enthusiasts. To Die in Provence is brilliant, a true treasure.” |
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The Hunting Animal “A searing, brutal and anguished comedy about those people who are owned body and soul by success.” “A novelist’s highest achievement ... Savage in its implications.”
“This is a tough one, all right, raunchy, mean, devastating.”
“The best Bogner to date. Funny and sad, fast-paced and unsparingly realistic ...
illuminates the human condition.” “The Hunting Animal is a savage, brilliant, beautifully written, and scathingly honest novel about men and women and how they pleasure one another. Norman Bogner has written the novel of his life, and of ours.”
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Arena "Color, excitement ... The pace never lets up.” “Vivid ...action-filled ...consistently entertaining.” "Another Godfather ... It has virtually everything!” |
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In Spells No Longer Bound |
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Snowman |
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California Dreamers |
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Plays:The Match |
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The Waiters |
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Screenplay:Privilege (published) |
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