Volver a verte/ Just Like Heaven - Softcover

Levy, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8492833033 ISBN 13: 9788492833030

Publisher: Roca Editorial, 2010

Synopsis

This is the book, by a French architect based in San Francisco, that made a huge Hollywood deal, and then a seven-figure sale to Pocket Books. It's an interesting study in the difference between a movie concept and a novel. One can imagine it as an offbeat romantic comedy on the screen, with charismatic actors and some nifty special effects, but as a book it's slight and one-dimensional--and it doesn't help that Levy has no ear whatsoever for American speech patterns. The gimmick at the heart of the story is a mixture of the movie notion of "meeting cute" and the Invisible Man tradition. Arthur, a young architect in San Francisco, finds a beautiful girl hiding in the closet of an apartment he has just bought. The problem is, only he can see her; she is, in fact, a spirit emanation of Lauren, a nurse who is lying in a coma at a nearby hospital after a near-fatal accident; the apartment used to be hers. After initially rejecting her explanation, Arthur begins to fall for Lauren, and determines that he must remove her comatose body from the hospital before her grieving mother can bring herself to cut off her life support. Helped by his skeptical business partner, Arthur accomplishes this with a borrowed ambulance and Lauren's knowledge of how the hospital works. Then the "body," along with the attendant invisible Lauren, is spirited away to the Carmel hideaway Arthur has kept since his beloved mother's death from cancer. (Life with mother is rendered in a series of saccharine scenes that would embarrass a maker of life insurance commercials.) George Pilger, one of the most improbable American police inspector ever to grace the pages of a novel, gets onto Arthur's escapade and goes down to Carmel to confront him. Will Arthur be arrested? Will Lauren die?

About this title

About the Author

Marc Levy lived in San Francisco for six years before returning to France to run an architectural firm. He divides his time between America and Europe. "Just Like Heaven" is his first novel and was an instant #1 bestseller in his homeland. Foreign rights have been sold in twenty-eight countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Roca Editorial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 8492833033
• ISBN 13: 9788492833030
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 285