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The Threat
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $28.99
ISBN13: 9781684429691
Publisher: Keylight Books
Published: Jan 16 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Mr. Melvin Levin, I'm going to kill you.
The Threat tells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first, Levin soon becomes accustomed to the threat--and then, increasingly, delighted with it, thrilled with his newfound importance as a threatened man. But as his obsession with maintaining this identity becomes all-consuming, he risks blinding himself to the twin dangers of the threat itself and--perhaps worse--his own deranged mind.
At once absurdist, moving, and savagely funny, The Threat is a timeless parable of the comic lengths to which& people go to protect the delusions that validate them.
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