The Book of Illusions (Paperback)
Editorial FABER & FABER
España peninsular
- Editorial FABER & FABER
- ISBN13 9780571275564
- ISBN10 0571275567
- Tipo Libro
- Páginas 336
- Año de Edición 2011
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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Literatura InglesaThe Book of Illusions (Paperback)
Editorial FABER & FABER
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh ...Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer's obsession with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann's wife, and inviting him to visit the great Mann himself. Can Hector Mann be alive? Zimmer cannot decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. Written with breath-taking urgency and precision, this stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another.