A Postmodern Love
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Publisher Description
Have you ever fallen in love and then had not just your life but your conception of life altered forever? Come and find out more in A POSTMODERN LOVE, a contemporary adult novel--romance, noire, psychological suspense.
In the end, a man is shot through the heart. Another man is driven to the edge of madness. Caught between them is Lana Fauves, a beautiful, intelligent woman, but one who is haunted by her past and the loss of her true love, a musical genius. In this fast-paced novel--romance, thriller, and noire--Thomas Wilde, a doctor and veteran of the Iraq War, will stop at nothing to win over the woman he has desperately fallen in love with. But amid the machinations of the modern world, will he find true love, or only heartache, deception, and murder?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Despite the title, the themes and events presented in this sojourn through contemporary relationships are tediously familiar. After a disastrous experience serving in Iraq and an unpleasant divorce, Los Angeles based otolaryngologist Thomas Wilde is ready for a distraction. It arrives in the form of the beautiful but inscrutable Lana Fauves, who vacillates between damsel in distress and femme fatale. Thomas's toxic obsession with Lana, which he sometimes believes is love, damages his finances, his medical practice (though he seems indifferent to his patients at best), and his other relationships, driving him to make increasingly destructive decisions. The story has much in common with 1940s noir films, including its shadowy, sparsely populated version of L.A. and its overall nihilism, but doesn't add anything new to the genre. Clumsy depictions of antagonists and Thomas's objectifying views of women make this a nonstarter for all but the most ardent and completist fans of philosophical noir.
