Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Atmospheric Disturbances (Hardcover) by Rivka Galchen


Imagine that the person you love is, in fact, not the person you love but a doppelgänger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum" of his wife Rema at the outset of Atmospheric Disturbances.
Leo's obsessive quest to recover the "real" Rema takes dazzlingly plotted turns (think Vertigo but directed by Charlie Kaufman) that illustrate at nearly every moment the sheer complexity of being in love.

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