Dear Miss Landau
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Every morning James Christie puts on a blue rugby shirt and jeans. His wardrobe is full of identical outfits. Every day he eats the same meal and drinks from the same mug. These are not ingrained habits, but survival strategies. For James, coping with new experiences feels like smashing his head through a plate glass window. The only relief comes from belting the heavy bag at the boxing club or watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's an autistic man lost in a neuro-typical world. Differently wired. Alien. Despite a high IQ, it seems he'll spend the next 20 years cleaning toilets. But then his life takes an amazing turn - from a Glasgow tenement to a rendezvous with a Hollywood star on Sunset Boulevard. On that road trip across America, the man who feels he lacks a soul will find it. Eight time zones and 5,000 miles away, he has a date with the actress who played Drusilla, the kooky vampire who changed his life when he saw her in a Buffy episode. Drusilla has no soul either. And maybe that's the attraction. But Drusilla is fictional. The lady he'll see on Sunset is Juliet Landau. She's real, and that's a very different proposition...
Customer Reviews
An unlikely enjoyability
One does not automatically think of an autistic man (a man with Asperger's syndrome, to be more accurate) as a likely author of pleasant descriptive prose, trenchant self-examination and as a provider of insight not only into his own world but that of non-autists. Mr. Christie achieves all of these in a engaging story of his efforts to find a place in the world where he fits, and of being led there by his muse- a deranged fictional vampire named Drusilla (of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fame)- and the actress who portrayed her, Juliet Landau.