The Insult (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

Thomson, Rupert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679781501 ISBN 13: 9780679781509

Verlag: Vintage Books, 1997

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Book by Thomson Rupert

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Blinded by a stray bullet in a supermarket parking lot, Martin Blom discovers that he can see at night in the dark, an ambiguous gift that leads him into a nightmarish and seductive nocturnal world. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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in the dark side of the brain--full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it."
--Michael Ondaatje
With this eerie, provocative, and utterly original novel, Rupert Thomson takes the psychological thriller into unexplored territory. Martin Blom is walking toward his car in a supermarket parking lot when a single random bullet pierces his brain. From that moment he is blind--his doctor says permanently. But then one evening Martin discovers what is either a genuine miracle or a delusion suffered occasionally by the newly blind: in the dark, he can see.

Armed with this ambiguous gift, Thomson's protagonist enters a nocturnal world of strip clubs and sleazy hotels. In that world, an alluring young woman may give herself to the one man she thinks is unable to see her, only to vanish inexplicably. In that world, a blind man may become a murder suspect. And in the gorgeously disorienting world of The Insult, reality itself is a con

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679781501
• ISBN 13: 9780679781509
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418