Crossing the Lines - Softcover

Crossing the Lines

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 272 pages. ex-library, text lightly tannedSulari Gentill, author of the 1930s Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, jumps to the post-modern in Crossing the Lines.A successful writer, Madeleine, creates a character, Edward, and begins to imagine his life. He, too, is an author. Edw ard is in love with a woman, Willow, who's married to a man Edward loathes, and who loathes him, but he and Willow stay close friends. She's an artist. As Madel eine develops the plot, Edward attends a gallery show where a scummy critic is f lung down a flight of fire stairs.murdered. Madeleine, still stressed from her miscarriages and grieving her inability to have a child, grows more and more en amored of Edward, spending more and more time with him and the progress of the i nvestigation and less with her physician husband, Hugh, who in turn may be devel oping secrets of his own.As Madeline engages more with Edward, he begins to engage back. A crisis comes when Madeleine chooses the killer in Edward's sto ry and Hugh begins to question her immersion in her novel. Yet Crossing the Line s is not about collecting clues and solving crimes. Rather it's about the proces s of creation, a gradual undermining of the authority of the author as the act o f writing spirals away and merges with the story being told, a self-referring na rrative crossing over boundaries leaving in question who to trust, and who and w hat is true. Artikel-Nr. 6074u

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