Re: JCO: Female of the Species -- WATCH OUT some plots discussed.

I'd already read many of the stories in this collection when they appeared in
various magazines. Seeing them all together this weekend, however, I was
stuck by the anxiety and distress expressed over American affluence and
wastefulness. Stories like "Hunger" -- rich wife colludes with the feral-catlike
street guy who wants to kill her wealthy Bostonian husband for his insurance. Or
the truly nasty "Madison at Guignol" (the title says it all) in which a
wealthy, idle Manhattan woman is assulted by the staff of a pricey boutique and
ritually slaughtered -- convey a lot of guilt about the greedy obtuseness of rich
people and how they're cruisin' for a bruisin".
Has anyone else out there read this book yet?
Cyrano
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