04384cam a2200757 4500 531664988 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781633880894 1633880893 B00TNBPJLW Amazon 46d2f88c-81b3-4ede-9d80-e9543f74ef23 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 258523 258523 258523 2260203 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McAlpine, Gordon. Woman with a Blue Pencil [Libby]. Seventh Street Books, 2015. crime fiction. Mystery and Suspense. Fiction. crime. novels. detective. Thrillers. private investigator. Short Stories. mystery. England. mysteries. noir. Historical mysteries. Thriller. police. mystery and thrillers. fiction books. murder mystery. historical mystery fiction. historical mystery. detective novels. historical mystery novels. Hard Case Crime. thriller books. mysteries and thrillers. crime books. mystery books. Murder mystery books. mystery novels. mystery thriller suspense. books mystery. books fiction. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 333kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 333kB. Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>"<i>Woman with a Blue Pencil</i> is a brilliantly structured labyrinth of a novel—something of an enigma wrapped in a mystery, postmodernist in its experimental bravado and yet satisfyingly well-grounded in the Los Angeles of its World War II era. Gordon McAlpine has imagined a totally unique work of 'mystery' fiction—one that Kafka, Borges, and Nabokov, as well as Dashiell Hammett, would have appreciated."</b><br /> <br /> —<b>JOYCE CAROL OATES</b><br /> <i>What becomes of a character cut from a writer's working manuscript?</i><br /> <br /> On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Sam Sumida, a Japanese-American academic, has been thrust into the role of amateur P.I., investigating his wife's murder, which has been largely ignored by the LAPD. Grief stricken by her loss, disoriented by his ill-prepared change of occupation, the worst is yet to come, Sam discovers that, inexplicably, he has become not only unrecognizable to his former acquaintances but that all signs of his existence (including even the murder he's investigating) have been erased. Unaware that he is a discarded, fictional creation, he resumes his investigation in a world now characterized not only by his own sense of isolation but by wartime fear.<br /> Meantime, Sam's story is interspersed with chapters from a pulp spy novel that features an L.A.-based Korean P.I. with jingoistic and anti-Japanese, post December 7th attitudes – the revised, politically and commercially viable character for whom Sumida has been excised.<br /> Behind it all is the ambitious, 20-year-old Nisei author who has made the changes, despite the relocation of himself and his family to a Japanese internment camp. And, looming above, is his book editor in New York, who serves as both muse and manipulator to the young author—the woman with the blue pencil, a new kind of <i>femme fatale</i>.<br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=46d2f88c-81b3-4ede-9d80-e9543f74ef23&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=46d2f88c-81b3-4ede-9d80-e9543f74ef23&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=46d2f88c-81b3-4ede-9d80-e9543f74ef23&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)