Existential Detective

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

William Blake is a private detective. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the whereabouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers of deceptions and disappearances that lead him inexorably back to an unsolved mystery in his own past: the loss of his young daughter Emily. The case takes Will to brothels, night clubs and amusement arcades in the Scottish seaside resort of Portobello. Identities become confused as his sexual obsession with a night club singer becomes entwined with sightings of Louise, his own torturous memories, and new visions of the lost Emily.The Existential Detective is a surreal, dreamlike story of loss, incest and what it means to remember.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-05
Mått:127 x 203 x 11 mm
Vikt:210 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Salt Modern Fiction
Antal sidor:184
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Salt Publishing
ISBN:9781784630119

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Alice Thompson was born in Edinburgh. She is the former keyboard player of post-punk eighties band, The Woodentops. She won The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Justine. Her second novel, Pandora’s Box, was shortlisted for The Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. Her other novels are Pharos, The Falconer, The Existential Detective, Burnt Island, The Book Collector and, most recently, Chimera. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh University.

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If you can have degrees of uncanniness, The Existential Detective is Thompson's uncanniest – and best – novel yet. Private detective William Blake is hired by an eccentric scientist to find his missing wife, Louise, who may have lost her memory. Just as Freud's theory of the Uncanny insists that a man wandering around lost will repeatedly fetch up in the red-light district, Will's search takes him to a brothel and to a nightclub, where he develops a sexual obsession with a singer.