The Deadly Space Between: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060085940 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As he begins his slow dance of courtship and seduction, alienating mother from son, their world becomes unstable and duplicitous. A solitary boy in a family of independent, unconventional women, Toby Hawk lives in a small, closed world that consists of school and surfing the Internet. But everything changes when Isobel takes up with Roehm, a fascinating and enigmatic scientist. An eerie psychological ghost story with echoes of Faust, Freud, and Frankenstein, The Deadly Space Between is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passions -- a rich and dark exploration of sexual ambiguity and longing.. Toby turns to the Web for clues about his mother’s hauntingly irresistible, predatory lover -- and the answers he finds transform his life. His mother, Isobel, a painter on the brink of commercial success, is only fifteen years his senior and the two share an unusually intimate bond
They have examined the body, they say; it is two centuries old and has been identified as one Gustave Roehm, a Swiss alpinist. From Publishers Weekly Her literary reputation well established with Hallucinating Foucault and The Doctor, Duncker here draws on Mary Shelley, Herman Melville and Freud, yet the work is powerfully her own, erotically charged and, finally, enigmatic. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. In Melville's words, they have transgressed the deadly space between. She has never identified his father, and perhaps not unconsciously encourages him to be infatuated with her, even allowing him certain sexual freedoms. . Tobias finally tries to kill Roehm, but is unsuccessful, and after he and Iso flee to the glacier-covered mountains of Switzerland (corresponding to Shelley's Arctic ice floes), Roehm follows. His body is soon di