Charles Stricklande seeks to discover whether his glamorous mother, Christine, actually died when he was a small boy or whether she disappeared only to re-emerge as actress Annette Anjou
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Vendeur : Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : Taos Books, Santa Fe, NM, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Fine. First Edition. (1st) Large book, gray cloth spine, black boards, very bright pink and black lettering very fine on spine, 286 lightly browned heavy pages. Review copy, letter included. DJ beautifully designed with left diagonal front in black, right in aluminum color, a purple orchid over both, praise at top front from John Hawkes, b/w photo of Guerard at back left, list of his works on right. DJ and book, both Very Fine. N° de réf. du vendeur 28722
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Vendeur : Borkert, Schwarz und Zerfaß GbR, Berlin, Allemagne
Etat : Gut. 286 S.; 24 cm. Gutes Ex.; Umschl. gering berieben. - Englisch. // If Christine/Annette were a movie out of the golden past - and readers will discover that movies past and present play a significant part in its revelations - the appropriate slogan for it might have been: "Christine Laroche! Many men admired her, wanted her, held her, lost her; two men never forgot her." Strictly speaking, such a slogan would be true. But how far, nonetheless, from the subtlety, style and imaginative power of Albert J. Guerard. Christine/Annette, marking as it does the return to fiction after two decades of one of Amer-ica's most distinguished men of letters, is a literary event of some magnitude. But the novel itself is wonderfully free of the portentousness such a phrase might suggest. Ranging from Paris at the end of the Belle Epoque to Berlin at the outbreak of the First World War, from a grandiose mansion in Houston, Texas, to the frenetic dance clubs and sordid back streets of inflationary Berlin of the 1920s, its story never fails to fascinate or startle us with its disclosures. A kind of Nabokovian excitement propels us forward with Charles Strickland to ask: Who was Christine, who was Annette? Strickland, who is Christine's son, is obsessive in his determination to find out the reality of his glamorous mother's life, and the truth about her death and disappearance, which happened when he was a seven-year-old schoolboy in Houston. Disappear she did, unquestionably. But did she really die, as his father claimed, even staging a hasty funeral for her on a barren ranch close to the Mexican border? Or had she led a double existence, running off from a hateful marriage, abandoning her son, to re-emerge in Berlin as an actress of the silent screen, Annette Anjou? Charles Strickland's quest is the impetus for a haunting novel that overturns all the conventions of romantic storytelling, and draws upon letters, diaries, news reports, interviews, fragments of a "novel," even a screenplay, as it moves ever closer to the heart of its alluring enigma. (Verlagstext) ISBN 0525243321 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 650 Originalhalbleinen mit Schutzumschlag. N° de réf. du vendeur 1091229
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