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Seller: Book Lover's Warehouse, Watauga, TN, U.S.A.Book Lover's Warehouse
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Stated first edition. The dust jacket is clean with light shelf wear. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING.
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- Title
- Back from the Dead
- Author
- Petit, Chris
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679451277
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451273
- Seller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction: World
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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Review
McMahon, a rock star uncomfortably conscious of being past his best, is shocked to open a letter that contains the same declarations of love as those of an obsessed fan who wrote to him years ago. But Leah, the author of those letters, is dead--so how can these new letters contain things that only the dead girl could have known? As the employment of ex-coppers for celebrity security has become a necessary fashion accessory, McMahon's wife hires Youselli, a hard-nosed city officer in need of extra money. But soon Youselli is inexorably drawn into the decadent lifestyle of his substance-abusing employers, and as he digs deeper into the strange motives of the mysterious fan, he plunges into a dark world of sexual obsession and manic love.
From the insecure musician McMahon to the down-on-his-luck Youselli, the psychology of Petit's characters are handled with a master's touch: "McMahon was making the best of appearing elegantly wasted, swigging a bottle of Jack Daniels from the neck, his eyes bulging and glittery with near obscene excitement, and looking several galaxies away. Youselli had to hand it him, he knew how to put on a party". --Barry Forshaw
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Book Lover's Warehouse
Watauga, TN, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 18, 2011
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