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Carregando... Any Resemblance to Actual Persons: A Novelde Kevin Allardice
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When Paul McWeeney's older sister writes a book accusing their late father of committing the gruesome Black Dahlia murder, based on memories her new therapist has helped her recover, or imagine, he sits down to write a cease and desist letter to the publishers. Paul hopes to refute his sister's claims about their father's role in the infamous 1947 murder, arguing for his own divergent memory of their Hollywood childhood by way of defending their father's name and legacy. But the letter begins to take on a life of its own, and Paul, a failed novelist and community college writing instructor, soon finds himself on an obsessive, elliptical exploration of both his family's history and his own conflicted memory, which begins to absorb his daily life and threaten his relationships with those closest to him. The letter becomes not the intended refutation but rather a disturbing and wildly comical psychological self-portrait of a man caught between increasingly unstable versions of the past -- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Let me start off by saying that I thought book would dive a little more into the mystery of the Black Dahlia in a different way.
The set up of the book was interesting and different from the usual type of book. It starts off basically like a letter that Paul McWeeney writes to the publishers trying to disclaim his sister, Eddie, but it soon becomes something more as it grew to pretty much consume his life.
While it was an interesting take on the Black Dahlia murder, like which one of the suspects might have clear motive for murdering Elizabeth Short and the alleged confession, I felt that the author "Paul" tends to go a little off topic too much and ramble about a bunch of stuff. There were times when those ramblings were interesting and gave the readers some insight to who Paul, George and Eddie are. The "research" and "stories" written by Paul, George and Eddie overlap a bit too much in some places, and the citations do throw me off a little bit (even though it does make sense given that Paul was trying to disprove his sister).
Paul is quite the character, as is his sister, Eddie. There were times that I sympathized with both of them, although most of the time I think Paul is so stubborn, obnoxious and so one tracked mind that it really annoys me. Like seriously, you couldn't take the time to talk openly with Julia and Chris a bit more after making some progress?
Anyways it was an interesting read, the ending could have used something more though. It felt a little open. That and while Paul initially set out to discredit his sister, I am not thoroughly convinced that he did that great of a job. Not a bad read but not a great one as I sort of lost interest through parts of the story. ( )