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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Deceptions and Betrayals May 10, 2007
I loved reading this book as I identified with some of the situations Marty went through. She wrote her story in an interesting style that shows her humorous way of looking at the past. Her sense of humor surely must have been a big part of her survival. "Deceptions and Betrayals" is definately five stars. In the Heartland of America
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Deceptions and Betrayals Mar 30, 2007
Marty's Book, "Deceptions and Betrayals" is about a girl trapped in a dysfunctional family discovering that her survival skills keep her going, but also lock her into a state of unhappiness. She discovers that she must take responsibility for her own happiness and escape from the madness of betrayals and deceptions. She escapes from her co-dependent status to one of responsibility for herself and her happiness. She experiences a wonderful bliss by being away from it all...and unhooking from the craziness...that causes many of us to be ill...and eventually suffer major health issues.
Hooray for Marty!
Good reading for everyone who wants to be healthy.
Conrad I. Villella
President,
Highpoint Cancer Information Center, Inc.
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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Deceptions and Betrayals Mar 27, 2007
As someone who knows Marty, and her husband, and her in-laws personally, it was hysterical the way she was able to describe everyone, and the events, so accurately. The story was so good, we couldn't put it down. I say "Bravo!" and give her five stars!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Review by Ellen Tanner Marsh - New York Times best-selling author Nov 17, 2006
Despite the title of this brief memoir, the story of Marty Wurtz's life is more a story of triumph--so much so that she might have titled the book Deceptions, Betrayals, and Triumphs. While Wurtz glosses over a lot of material in the course of this 50-year review of key events in her life, her ability to overcome the chief "deceptions and betrayals" is the glue that holds everything together in this encouraging narrative.
Wurtz has had a lot to triumph over: a selfish and controlling father, an abusive first husband, and manipulative in-laws in her second marriage (although her husband this time was, as Wurtz puts it, "her prince"). Throughout, Wurtz fashions a narrative that resonates with the endurance of one individual over adversity.
More remarkable is Wurtz's ability to do what only a handful of writers have attempted, and at which fewer have succeeded: to write engagingly about oneself in the third person. Charles Dickens accomplished as much in David Copperfield and Great Expectations, as did Laura Ingalls Wilder in her Little House books. What makes this feat so hard to achieve is the difficulty in gaining the distance from one's own experience required to write in a point of view that is so predominantly objective. The level of accomplishment in Deceptions and Betrayals is such that one does not realize, at first, that one is even reading a memoir.
Best of all, Deceptions and Betrayals does have the obligatory happily-ever-after ending, and because Wurtz writes with such skill about the trials she has had to overcome, we end up feeling as if our own problems seem a little less, while our own ability to face them seems a little more. This, perhaps, is why the "triumph-over-adverse-circumstances" theme, from David Copperfield to Little House, to Angela's Ashes and beyond, continues to attract such talent, and such appeal.
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