{"product_id":"9780857305107","title":"Suspects","description":"Author: David Thomson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780857305107\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oldcastle Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 352\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime  these are a few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe sketches in whole lives, lives as intense as the dreams put up on the screen. Then these characters start to meet each other outside the films as if they were real people with real needs and passions. The book is becoming a novel. The names and faces are familiar to us  Jake Gittes from Chinatown, Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker from Laura, Rick and Ilsa from Casablanca - but is it true that Noah Cross and Norma Desmond were lovers in the twenties, that she and Joe Gillis had a son who grew up to be Julian Kay in American Gigolo? For the narrator is not merely the author. Married to the sister of Laura Hunt, he has a mission to carry out, a lost family link to find, a thread to pull so that nearly all these disparate characters come together to form a kind of society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuspects\u003c\/i\u003e is the most inspired of commentaries on film noir and the forms of Hollywood story-telling. It is in its way a biographical dictionary, but it is also a dazzlingly original work of fiction, so full of America, of an old man\u0026amp;#x27;s dread of loss and failure, and of a simultaneous love and rage for these movies that you may find its impossible world as real and as touching as any you have ever inhabited. Ultimately an examination on how movies affect the way we think and how film not only shapes our perceptions and our memories but in some ways comes to stand in for them, \u003ci\u003eSuspects\u003c\/i\u003e can be read as an unsettling examination of identity and the construction of self through the medium of narratives, or simply as a fascinating take on movie fandom. Either way, it\u0026amp;#x27;s fabulous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Quite probably, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuspects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the most elaborate and witty piece of fan fiction ever\u0026amp;#x27; \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;A dazzling work of narrative invention\u0026amp;#x27;  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;A work whose power is incremental, whose shadow-America is elaborated step by step\u0026amp;#x27;  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrange Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46814081810590,"sku":"ADS-9780857305107","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780857305107.jpg?v=1778334419","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780857305107","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}