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Connecticut

Connecticut

Thomson, David

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 0857305646
ISBN13: 9780857305640
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres--an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies.

In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the exhilarating Silver Light, David Thomson delivered unprecedented fictions in which the characters were figures from film noir and the Western. Now a trilogy is completed with Connecticut.

Why Connecticut? Because that lovely, liberal state has been set aside as the resting place for every disturbed person in the nation! At first, this seems like an opportunity for meeting up with the merry ghosts of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, William Powell and Margaret Sullavan. We get glimpses of Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey and The Lady Eve. But then the wild comedy darkens as we realize that Connecticut itself is on the edge of a demented and cruel war that challenges all its inmates to keep seeing the comic side of mishap and madness.

The trilogy is revealed not just as a set of dazzling stories. But a commentary on how far we have all been steered towards delightful but dangerous fantasies by the movies. Aren't we all screwball now? Is Connecticut safe to visit?

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