Showing results for "The Dark" in Biographical Fiction

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."

The blood and violence never ends - it only stops long enough for Melena to relax her guard, to think she might actually survive. For the past year, she has worked hard to pick up the pieces of her life. The supernaturals in Fairbanks are tolerating her, the angels are shielding her from her enemies, and she's getting stronger as her body changes into . . . something else. If not for the man she loves being locked away in Purgatory, she might even believe she could be happy.

Ein schwarzhumoriges Werk über die Tücken des Älterwerdens! Der Protagonist in Wilhelm Genazinos zynischem Roman hat Probleme mit seinem Liebesleben: er ist mit gleich zwei Frauen, Sandra und Judith, zusammen - allerdings wissen die beiden nichts voneinander, und es wird immer schwieriger, das Geheimnis um die Dreiecksbeziehung zu wahren. Gleichzeitig merkt er, dass er die Blüte seines Lebens langsam hinter sich hat - und das Altern bringt ganz eigene Herausforderungen mit sich...