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Eclipse Fever

Among the multifaceted characters whose lives interlock are Alejandro, a once-prominent literary critic fallen into disfavor; his estranged wife, Mercedes, whom he suspects of openly conducting an affair with an American writer; Bonny, the writer's runaway daughter, who is made to witness a calamitous sequence of events that culminates in murder; Preston, an American industrialist, and his sexually frustrated wife, Rita; and the unscrupulous art dealer Pech. As the lives of these people press together, as they buckle and collapse, the novel holds up a mirror to a moment in which we lived — the end of a millennium, of an era — and to the perils, temptations, and hysteria that lie just below the surface.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 335
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781567920369
  • Genres
  • fiction
  • Release date
  • 1995