The Definition of Insanity - Couverture souple

Denny, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235524828

Editeur : Fireside Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Michael Denny is twenty-nine years old, living in a sun-baked apartment in Moreno Valley, California, and has been submitting the same novel to agents for two years. Each rejection arrives like a verdict. Each revision feels, in the moment, like the one that will finally make the difference. Each morning he opens the laptop, scrolls to page one, and tells himself this time is different.

It isn't different. That's the whole point.

The first sign is small: a coffee mug in the wrong place, a plant he threw out two weeks ago back on the windowsill, green and thriving. A song on a gas station radio that he knows - word for word, note for note - four bars before it plays. A rejection email with a fourth line that shouldn't be there: You've gotten this letter before. He tells himself these are coincidences, stress artifacts, the brain misfiling things. He is a writer. He notices patterns. Sometimes the patterns aren't there.

But the patterns are there.

The Definition of Insanity is a literary psychological thriller about a man caught in a loop he helped build - a loop made not of time exactly, but of avoidance, of revision without honesty, of the particular human talent for doing the same thing over and over while staying carefully incurious about why. It is a novel about a writer who cannot finish his book because finishing it would require telling the truth he has been beautifying for two years. And it is about what happens when the loop begins to crack - when the seams show, when the notes from outside the cycle start arriving faster, and when a woman named Sashara, who told him on the day they met that his relationship to his manuscript was a living problem, turns out to have been more precisely right than he understood.

Haunted by Steinbeck's ghost and built in the strip malls and summer heat of California's Inland Empire, this is a novel about the cost of self-deception, told by a writer who knows that cost intimately - and who eventually, at great personal expense, paid it.

For fans of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, Matt Haig's The Midnight Library, and Dark - a metafictional thriller about the loop we build to protect ourselves from the one true thing we cannot yet face.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fireside Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235524828
• Reliure: Copertina flessibile
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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