Resumo de Love Songs - Lawrence Sanders

BobbieVanders, famous singer with albums and concerts all over the world lived through her fame but somehow got sick of the scenery and decided to take a break and head home accompanied by her composer Hapwood Graves, a cocaine addict. He was also a poet aside from composing songs and a Hardvard dropout. They could have been lovers but Bobbie refused to have sex with him and so far they have a platonic relationship and would travel together when she is doing concerts.Now the mystery of her family unravels as they stayed at her seaside family home . Family is made up of older sister Julie who does nothing but laze in the sun on the roof of the house and naked to get a tan, father Pieter Vanderhorst, a Dutch emigrant who is old and walks with a cane but still has a healthy sexual appetite and mother Grace who is the epitome of a good wife and mother. Together they lived with an India househelp, Rebecca who cooks for them and her son Tom. It was a closely knit neighborhood they lived in and they relied on each other for help and their lives are intertwined. Vanderhorst was a succesful man and a good provider for the family and the household help including Sam Lees, the handyman who also lived with them. They called him the Ptroon. His wife turns a blind eye to his philandering. rebecca is actually his mistressand tom is his bastard son and Tom never knew it. Their neighbour and doctor Ben Todd is Julie's boyfriend and he has an adopted daughter who is a tease who wears provocative clothing. She swims most times and Tom would usually swim with her sometimes she would teasingly touch him and he is hopelessly in love with her. Sam Lees spies on her now and then at night with his binoculars.One interesting fact is when Bobbie and Julie were youg they had an incest lesbian relationship with each other. Their father became concerned with their closeness and they seem to be always holding hands most times and sent them to separate schools. Bobbie has become a famous singer while Julie just stayed at home not knowing what to do with her life and grew obese idling around and dating Be. After Bobbie learned of her relationship with Ben she became jealous and violent towards her. she then decided to steal Ben from her and for a woman as strong willed as her, she is capable of such a selfish act. She is more like their father in tewmperament and could have been the son the patroon has longed for and Julie was more like her mother. Rebecca and the patroon sesnsed th hopeless love of tom for Susan Todd which is not helping his school grdes and decided to send him away so he could forget her. So far, Bobbie was ssuccesful in seducing Ben and he became more intrigued by her to the despair of Julie. Soon the traged slowly begins to unfoldwhen Susan fell in love with Hapwood. She seduced him too and they have a regular tryst in a secluded place in a cemetery. Sam dicovered their secret hieaway. One day when her father was away she persuaded Hapwood to do it at her housein her bedroom.Sam saw them dancing around naked with his binoculars and told Tom to have a look a his binoculars too. Tom became very angry and jealous and grabbed his Indian exe. On his way down and poassing the kitchen, his mother saw hiw with the axe and she stood still frightened but could not do anything. He strode down to the Todd's house and into Susan's bedroom and there they lay naked on the bed. First he chopped Hapwood then susan. Now everybody in the Vanderhorst house is in panic and chaos. Rebecca and the patroon went to Todd's house and they found the chopped bodies. They saw Tom dive into the stormy surf and he never heard them call out his name even when the patroon called him "Son". After the funeral when a little bit calm was restored, the patroon gazed out into the sea. bobbie sat down in front of him and knowingly told him that Tom was really his son. He anwered that it does not mean that he loved her and her sister and mother less. Bobbie wanted to resume hsinging career and look for a new composer. Ben todd came with him even if she insisted that their relationship would not work and he would get bored with just being a companion to her. He loved her after all and not Julie. Julie will get over him in due time.

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