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Morte di uno scrittore (2006)

di Michael Collins

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"For E. Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, and during his long convalescence, a novel is discovered hidden in his basement: a brilliant, semi-autobiographical story with a gruesome child murder at its core"--… (altro)
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A strange story, strangely told.

Robert Pendleton, professor at a midwestern college, is bitter about his fate as a writer. He is hosting a visiting writer, Allen Horowitz, who had been a fellow student when they were young. The visitor is wildly successful, while Pendleton's works have faded into oblivion.

Because Pendleton has lately been phoning in his lectures, creating dissatisfaction among his students and the faculty, his boss insists that he bring along a graduate student to help greet the visitor. The grad student is Adi Wiltshire. A fan of Horowitz's, she has been working on her thesis for a long time and has a reputation for providing extra benefits to visiting professors.

Pendleton has more than a little difficulty with his hosting job. Ultimately, he loses it, and lands in the hospital, where Adi visits. In her wanderings around his house, Adi discovers a book by Pendleton that she had not seen before. She reads it and is enthralled.

At the heart of the book is the murder of a child. The circumstances of the crime are similar to a real murder committed some years before. She works with Horowitz to get the book republished and it is a sensation. But a sensation with a dark secret.

The narration is omniscient, shifting from person to person. It's difficult knowing who is the protagonist. Although he is out of it for much of the book, I kept pulling for the professor, whom I didn't even particularly like. I didn't much like any of the characters, which is why I kept wondering if I even liked the book. It's ingenious and it did keep me reading. ( )
  slojudy | Sep 8, 2020 |
Veel van het 'geheime leven' van E. Robert Pendleton ben ik nog niet te weten gekomen. De man lijkt de hoofdrol te spelen als je de titel moet geloven, maar hij speelt slechts een kleine rol (ergens dacht ik dat hij nog uit z'n coma zou ontwaken). Het begin van het boek was intrigerend. In het middenstuk werden allerlei personages opgevoerd; het duizelde me soms van de vele namen die door elkaar werden gebruikt (voornaam, achternaam, bijnaam). Geen van de personages kwam echt tot leven; de sfeer is kil en vreugdeloos. Het eind van het boek was dan wél weer spannend en had vaart. In de epiloog hoopte ik dat het nog tot een closure zou komen, maar uiteindelijk blijft de 'whodunnit' onbeantwoord. ( )
  Cromboek | Nov 27, 2017 |
Robert Pendleton is a professor at a mid level college, who disappointed with his failure as a writer and teacher tries to commit suicide when his very successful colleague Horowitz visits the college, but fails. Adi a perpetual graduate student finds his self-published last novel Scream and sets out with Horowitz to have it published. The novel uncovers a brutal murder of a teen girl and soon there is an investigation about what Pendleton’s involvement might have been. Good beginning but drags in the middle and one never does discover if Pendleton was responsible or not. ( )
  CarterPJ | Mar 19, 2014 |
I was intrigued at the beginning of this book. There was enough action, atmosphere and character to make me want to read further. However, the book bogged down somewhere in the middle and I read on hoping the end would justify the means. I was disappointed. Maybe I'm dense, but I don't know who actually commited the murders. If it was explained, I missed it. I even retraced my steps to see if I missed it. I got the tortured characters and flawed heroes. I got the slams to academia and I even tolerated the run-on sentences, which weren't all that bad, as run-ons go. A lot of information was repeated ad nauseum, but the "whodunit" part was left out, I think. ( )
  bcrowl399 | Jul 9, 2013 |
Ce roman débute comme l'un de ces nombreux romans se déroulant dans une université américaine. Les protagonistes sont E. Robert Pendleton dans le rôle du professeur frustré qui n'a jamais pu percer en tant qu'écrivain et Adi dans le rôle de la jeune étudiante pulpeuse éprise de littérature. Pour compléter ce duo, il manquait le poil à gratter, l'élément perturbateur. Il va apparaître sous les traits d'un écrivain sans talent mais devenu célèbre depuis que lui et le professeur Pendleton suivaient les mêmes cours à l'université. La venue de ce rival, va être le déclencheur d'événements qui moisissaient depuis trop longtemps.
Au début un peu étriqué, ce roman prend rapidement de l'ampleur et n'est pas loin de perdre le lecteur à un moment tellement l'histoire se ramifie et se complexifie. C'est là que l'auteur fait preuve d'une très grande maîtrise car il arrive à maintenir le lecteur dans ses filets et ne le lâchera pas jusqu'à la fin. De roman traitant vaguement de littérature et de rivalité au sein d'un trio amoureux, il se mu en polar extrêmement efficace et intelligent. L'auteur joue avec de nombreux personnages tous très différents et atypiques. Il jongle également avec les époques car les évènements actuels trouvent leur origine dans le passé trouble de cette petite ville des Etats-Unis. Il fait également référence au crime de Leopold et Loeb qui est relaté dans l'excellent roman Crime de Meyer Levin dont j'avais parlé ici et que je vous conseille également de lire. http://www.aubonroman.com/2012/01/la-vie-secrete-de-e-robert-pendleton.html ( )
  yokai | Jan 28, 2012 |
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