Back from the Dead - Hardcover

Petit, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679451277 ISBN 13: 9780679451273

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

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Book by Petit Chris

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Youselli is a cynical, disillusioned city cop painfully aware of the downward spiral he's on. McMahon is a fading but still profligate rock star who has begun receiving letters signed in the name of a girl who died fifteen years ago, when he was at the height of his fame. McMahon is desperate to know who's writing them. Youselli is reluctant - the privileged decadence and celebrity games of McMahon's life both irritate and attract him - but he agrees to investigate.
Almost immediately Youselli is pulled into the eerie mystery of the letters - their combination of anger and yearning, their fierce sexuality, their seeming authenticity in the face of their obvious fabrication and, especially, their strange fatalism.
And though the letters are addressed to McMahon, Youselli begins to feel more and more implicated by them himself. He senses that they are somehow tainting the lives of those who read them - especially Edith Weber, the psychiatrist he has enlisted to help him understand the mind behind the letters (and who might help him understand his mind as well) - but he grows increasingly blind to the effect they are having on his own life. Finally, he too appears to be malfated: following the deadly inner logic of obsession, he becomes both detective and fate's agent, the "solution" to the puzzle of the letters leading him toward his undoing.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679451277
• ISBN 13: 9780679451273
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 257