Love Creeps
A Novel
by Amanda Filipacchi
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Pub Date Jun 24 2014 | Archive Date Sep 24 2014
Open Road Integrated Media | Open Road Media
Description
At thirty-two years old, Lynn Gallagher is one of the five most influential contemporary-art gallery owners in Manhattan. Too bad her face is dead. Not so, says Lynn’s assistant, but that is how it feels when she compares it to her stalker’s face. Alan Morton may be a plump, goofy-looking accountant, but his face glows with life when he peers at Lynn through her gallery window. The difference is that Alan wants something—her—very badly, while Lynn wants nothing at all.
So she decides to stalk.
The object of her obsession—French attorney Roland Dupont—is chosen at random in a Chelsea bakery. He is attractive, but it is not until he expresses his disinterest in her that Lynn begins to truly desire him. Alan, jealous of Lynn’s newfound hobby, befriends Roland to find out what she sees in him. When Roland learns that he acquired his stalker by happenstance, he decides that he might be interested in Lynn after all. Soon all three are brazenly pursuing each other across the city—from adult education classes in the art of beading to meetings of Stalker’s Anonymous—as they try to figure out what it is that they truly want. The advice of Ray, the homeless psychologist who observes their madcap comings and goings, is not much help at all: “Take a break, an antidepressant. Get hold of yourselves.”
A hip and darkly humorous novel about the mysteries of romance, Love Creeps is pure Amanda Filipacchi—funny, wicked, and wise.
Advance Praise
“Inventive . . . hilarious . . . [Filipacchi’s] style is
reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark. It’s brisk, witty, knowing,
mischievous . . . Love Creeps is a rare treat. It’s intelligent, and perceptive about the slippery nature of desire. And it’s extraordinarily funny.” —The Boston Globe
“[Filipacchi’s]
writing is both humorous and sharp, but it’s also incredibly
insightful: in telling the story of these three strange people, she
makes piercing observations about human nature and seemingly
inexplicable behavior. Brilliant.” —Booklist, starred review
“A surreal comedy of manners that’s also a surprisingly penetrating work of psychological fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A
fast-moving surrealistic sex farce about fear, seduction and stalking
in Manhattan—a place where everybody is spying on everybody else—that’s
part suspense comedy and part philosophical treatise on the neurosis of
love. This is, by far, Amanda Filipacchi's funniest and most
accomplished novel.” —Bret Easton Ellis
“Whimsical and subversive, Love Creeps takes
the hot, tragic issues of our day (stalking, child abuse) and cools
them down to wry comedy. The result is both shocking and philosophical.”
—Edmund White
“Filipacchi has such an original voice and this book is her most hilarious and thought-provoking yet—entertainingly complex!” —Tama Janowitz
“With
a flair for delightfully silly dialogue, Filipacchi's third novel
portrays romance as the tricky, prickly game that it is.” —The Village Voice
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781497645790 |
PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Here is the thing, I first read Vapor by Filipacchi before I ever read Love Creeps or Nude Men. It joined my favorite book list, and one of the reasons is Amanda has unique stories. You can say anything you want, but you can't claim you have read the same thing somewhere else. In Love Creeps you have a stalker who adores a woman that decides, in order to revive feeling and passion in her own indifferent heart, to stalk someone else. Of course, her stalker gets a front row to her stalking, as he stalks her. When you dissect that idea, how can you not be interested? This becomes one entangled un-love story. You can hate the characters or pity them, either way- it's sickly funny. And the homeless therapist, I wonder if she dreams these wacky ideas. Either way, I am always pulled in. I was excited to learn she finally (those of us who are fans have been waiting for years) has a new novel coming out in February of 2015 (what's a few more months after years of waiting) called The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty. Not everyone gets her, but those readers that do will find novels to sink their teeth in. Her stories linger in my brain, and that can't be said of every novel I read.
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