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Journey [electronic resource] / Danielle Steel.
Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges. Maddy has always tried to deny Jack's subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation -- as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep. It seems impossible that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and fear. Maddy's secrets are well kept, even from herself.
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- ISBN: 9780307566560 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0307566560 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- Publisher: New York : Dell Pub., [2009], c2000.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #1 August 2000
Steel's fans will no doubt welcome her fiftieth novel and take her newest heroine, award-winning TV anchorwoman Maddy Hunter, to heart as she slowly comes to recognize her husband, Jack, for what he is--a mean-spirited, sadistic master of emotional and verbal and, occasionally, physical and sexual abuse as well as her employer, enslaving lover, and savior from her previous life of southern poverty. Maddy slowly realizes that what lies behind the glamorous facade of her fame, gorgeous Georgetown home, dream vacations, and New York shopping sprees via private jet is a very ugly reality as her beloved tormentor increasingly isolates her within their sugarcoated but torturous marriage. Fortunately, she becomes involved with the First Lady's Commission on Violence against Women and slowly builds a path toward sanity through a friendship will Bill Alexander, an older man and former diplomat who has lost his wife to terrorist violence. As an extraordinary series of events unfolds, a stranger appears from Maddy's secret past, placing her in ever greater jeopardy, forcing her to reevaluate her loss of self-confidence and self-respect, and moving her inexorably on her journey toward selfhood and a new life despite Jack's wrath and retribution. Once again, Steel provides a tale replete with all the treacle her audience has come to love and expect. ((Reviewed August 2000)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2000 August #2
A beautiful TV news anchor at the mercy of her rich, cruel, powerful husband discovers that wife-beating isn't just for trailer trash.In fact, as the author is careful to point out, batterers come from all walks of life and always have, and psychologicalabuse can be nearly as destructive as the physical kind. There's lots of useful information of this sort interwoven throughout this wildly implausible tale. Maddy Hunter thinks of herself as her husband's creationâafter all, the ruggedly handsome media mogul and presidential advisor brought her from a go-nowhere receptionist job to national news stardom. Yet Maddy's millions of fans don't know that Jack Hunter is emotionally and sexually abusive, and controlling as all get out. He insisted she have her tubes tied, and sometimes he won't even let her go out to shop! Defiantly, Maddy becomes involved with the First Lady's Commission on Violence Against Women and gets into therapy. Meanwhile, much didactic but reasonably accurate information on many aspectsof battering is presented in the form of long-winded dialogue from all parties. As Jack gets rougher and tougherâand more and more controllingâMaddy comes to her senses, thinks about leaving him, meets a significant stranger from her past. And, oh, yeah,finds the love of a good man. Then tragedy strikes: she's buried under tons of rubble when the mall is blown up by crazed fanatics. So ironic, too, because the classy Maddy just hates malls and went in only to buy wrapping paper. Will the heroic rescuersreach her in time? Will she be able to adopt the tiny baby whose unwed teenage mother lay dying conveniently nearby? Fill in the blanks: this is Steel's 50th novel (The House on Hope Street, p. 745).Gushy treatment of a very serious and real problem. Butgiven Steel's gadzillion readers, it may well end up doing good somewhere. Copyright 2000 Kirkus Reviews - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2000 August #4
Marital abuse in its most insidious form is the focus of Steel's (The House on Hope Street, etc.) dependable page-turner, her 50th novel. To the outside world, Washington, D.C., television coanchor Maddy Hunter appears to have an enviable life. Married to her boss, former football star-cum-media mogul Jack Hunter, she's got brains, beauty, a prestigious job, a glamorous marriage and all the trappings of success. Yet Maddy whose current husband saved her from a physically abusive former spouse is trapped in another relationship that's as devastating and destructive as her first. Jack doesn't hit Maddy, but he subjects her to mind games, put-downs and constant undermining; it's obvious psychological abuse to observers, though not to Maddy. Using Maddy's participation in a commission on violence against women chaired by the nation's First Lady, Steel explicates the various forms of spousal abuse, and although the text occasionally gets preachy, the desperate plight of women who remain in destructive situations is clearly delineated. Meanwhile, Maddy warily builds a friendship with Bill Alexander, a fellow committee member and former ambassador to Colombia whose wife was killed by kidnappers. Maddy's experience interacting with women like herself and the appearance of a daughter she gave up for adoption as an unwed teenager (and whom Jack forbids her to see) both have an impact. Still, it takes a life-threatening event to convince her finally to change her life and accept the gift of a good man's love. Steel has her formula down pat, and she executes her story with her usual smooth pacing. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
