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Fickle | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Manus
Publisher: Virgin Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 690519
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0753513994
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780753513996
ASIN: 0753513994
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
This suspense-filled noir is told completely in the form of the protagonist's weblog. L.G. Fickel, a young literary editor by day, spends her nights hosting a playful blog devoted to pulp fiction. One
night, however, she posts that she's just witnessed a train suicide, an event that changes her own life to a noirish tale of psychological tension that borders on paranoia as the police discover connections between Fickel and the dead man that she can't explain. Fickel's blog fans are her support system, an unruly Greek chorus of commenters,addicted to Fickel's troubles as every night she pours out the increasingly strange story of her life as a murder suspect. This novel comes about as close as any to breaking down the "third wall" between reader and novel as the reader begins to realize that he's just another voyeur, lurking on Fickel's blog and relishing her growing desperation.
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Modern noir September 18, 2008
Henry W. Wagner (Rockaway, NJ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The central conceit of Fickle is that its action is conveyed entirely through the blogs of a flighty young woman who goes by the moniker L. G. Fickel and the brash mystery man Full Frontal, both of whom had a unique perspective on what the police originally label a suicide but soon come to suspect is something far more sinister. Fickel claims the man leaped to his death, while Full Frontal maintains that Fickel pushed him into the path of an oncoming subway train.
Manus does a remarkable job of juggling a huge cast, as the novel's players also include the myriad fans of noir who frequent Fickel's "Life is Pulp" website, all of whom have wildly differing personalities and opinions, all of whom have no problem in brashly expressing both. The nature of the narrative creates a sense of immediacy, and of urgency, as increasingly disturbing revelations are doled out. It is the nature of these revelations that will make or break this book for readers. Some may grow weary of the unending kibitzing and online bickering, while others might be intrigued by the constantly shifting terrain; in addition, the possibility that one or more narrators might be lying will make the book more annoying or more engrossing, depending on your tolerance for ceaseless shocks and surprises.
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