The Insult - Hardcover

Thomson, Rupert

 
9780679446729: The Insult
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679446729 ISBN 13: 9780679446729
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

In a supermarket parking lot, a young man is suddenly, senselessly, struck down by a random bullet. Once he regains consciousness, his neurosurgeon delivers a prognosis of permanent loss of vision followed by ghastly varieties of grave despair. Another consequence, albeit rare, is Anton's syndrome: the conviction of the blind man that he actually can see.
Thus begins an extraordinary journey of recuperation and discovery, through dank city streets of dingy bars and hotels prowled by police and their prey, along with circus performers and sexual acrobats, all of it riven with sordid comforts and rude surprises - a journey that leads, finally, to a remote mountain village with hot springs and the deep mysteries of lust, family, and genetics: a world in which light and dark, nightmares and wakefulness, exchange places, and where what you see is not at all what you get.

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sublimely intelligent psychological thriller, this book is a return to the vivid, unsettling urban underworld Thomson explored in his first two novels. "We are in the dark side of the brain, full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it, " writes Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient.

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sublimely intelligent psychological thriller, this book is a return to the vivid, unsettling urban underworld Thomson explored in his first two novels. "We are in the dark side of the brain, full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it, " writes Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient.

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679446729
ISBN 13 
9780679446729
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
406
Herausgeber
Fisketjon Gary
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