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[TK Kenyon]

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*STARRED REVIEW* for *RABID: A Novel* by TK Kenyon:  A priest, a 
professor, the professor's wife, and his mistress--it sounds like 
the set-up for a dirty joke, but debut novelist Kenyon isn't fooling 
around. What begins as a riff on Peyton Place (salacious small-town 
intrigue) smoothly metamorphoses into a philosophical battle between 
science and religion. You would think that in attempting to deal 
with so many different themes-- shady clergy, top-secret scientific 
research, marital infidelity, lust, love, honor, faith-- Kenyon 
would run the risk of overwhelming readers. But, and this is why 
Kenyon is definitely an author to watch, she juggles all of her 
story's elements without dropping any of them--and, let's not 
forget, creates four very subtle and intriguing central characters. 
This is a novel quite unlike most standard commercial fare, a genre-
bending story--part thriller, part literary slapdown with dialogue 
as the weapon of choice (think Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)-- 
that makes us laugh, wince, and reflect all at the same time. Kenyon 
is definitely a keeper. -- David Pitt, Booklist, December 1, 2006