Semantics of Murder

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781846686580
  • 30 april 2009
  • 256 pagina's
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Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalysis practice. But the darker recesses of his own psyche would not stand up to close examination: his brother Richard, a genius professor of mathematical linguistics, was apparently killed by rent boys in Los Angeles and Jay was the first on the scene. Author Dana Flynn is determined to scratch beneath the surface while researching a biography she intends to write about Richard, and finds that Jay's professional life is as precarious as his personal relationships - he uses his clients - case studies as material for his fiction writing. Such is Jay's hunger for recognition as a creative force that he exploits the vulnerables he counsels, and a decision not to intervene when a troubled patient steals a baby, causes his past to unravel.

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30 april 2009
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256
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Hoofdauteur
Aifric Campbell
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Profile Books Ltd

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129 mm
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16 mm
Verpakking lengte
198 mm
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181 g

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  • Powerful debut

    As an au-pair living and studying Linguistics in Sweden, Aifric Campbell (AC) became intrigued by the life and death of an influential US logician who inspired new ways of looking at the true nature of language. His scientific career was and remains astounding. It was cut short by murder at the age of 41. His name is Richard Montague (RM). He also was a promiscuous gay with a preference for black lovers. Early one morning in 1971, he was found naked and dead in his bathroom by his housemate, who saw two or three black persons speed away in RM’s Bentley. These are the facts according to the LAPD at the time. RM’s murder remains unsolved today.
    An hour on the internet probing RM and AC suffice to see that RM really lived, keen on pushing the boundaries of pure science, and yields lots more info: AC is the third person to write a book about Richard Montague’s double life, but she was not aware of the two earlier books. To illuminate him, AC went through some 40 cardboard boxes full of RM’s notes endowed to UCLA. She also interviewed LAPD detectives investigating ‘cold cases’, visited the place where he died, read old police press and records. The result? Not enough material for a biography. She wrote a novel instead.
    The person propelling this novel onwards is “Jay”, the fictional, 18 years younger kid brother AC invented out of nowhere. He is a psycho analyst in London, the main subject and ‘raconteur’ of this rather disturbing novel full of resentment and jealousy. Is this book a homage to a flawed but brilliant academic? Is Jay’s account of his own life and his brother’s death truthful, reliable? That is for readers to find out.

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    Confronterend hoe een professionele psycho-analist tegen zijn patienten aankijkt en hoe schrijvers gebruik maken van mensen die zij kennen of onderzoeken in hun verhalen.
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