The Rachel Condition - Tapa blanda

Rombes, Nicholas

 
9781955904926: The Rachel Condition
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ISBN 10: 1955904928 ISBN 13: 9781955904926
Editorial: CLASH Books, 2024

Sinopsis

The Rachel Condition is at once a political thriller, a family saga, and a mind-bending love story that plays out through the mysterious byways of Detroit.

Antony has ostensibly traveled to Detroit in search of the last copy of a dangerous political novel, but his true purpose is to infiltrate a tight circle of political dissidents. Rachel appears to be working for the Detroit-based insurgency, but her loyalties are complicated. 

They meet at a dive bar with a dangerous Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom pinball machine and a malevolent bartender named Paul. There's also Patti, of the proto-punk band Psycho Femmes; Julia, whose uncle founded the Detroit chapter of the Black Panthers; The Commander, also known as Charlotte; The Colonel, who wears many uniforms so to speak; and Yama, a doom metal band that literally plays eternal, one-note songs. 

Nothing is as it seems, no one can be trusted, and, as Rachel reminds Antony, everything is different in retrospect. History, as Rachel knows, is written by the victors, and this goes for personal history, too. The Rachel Condition tells a story of tenderness and the power of art to create and destroy in the midst of violence and chaos.

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Acerca del autor

Nicholas Rombes is author of the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing as well as the 33 1/3 book Ramones and the experimental film book 10/40/70. He teaches at the University of Detroit Mercy, in northwest Detroit.

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I’ve assembled this in the truest way I know how. By memory, since nothing else is trustworthy. My letters to Antony are preserved as they were recovered, mildly redacted as I’d expected. Charlotte’s report—her justification—is here in full, although the weirdly formal and stilted language will only feed into rumors that it’s not authentic. As evil as it is, I’ve kept the Colonel’s letter to Antony as it contains the revelation. The Colonel, Antony’s father, his eyes, my God!What can I say here about Psycho Femmes that Antony hasn’t already said?His account (fucked up, but still) of Detroit and what happened there— prompted by an analyst who told him to “tell it like a story”— is also here in full. These have been arranged in roughly the order he wrote them, ending with the account of his imprisonment.Perhaps, after all, telling is not the same as healing, as Antony’s verbal disintegration as he reaches the ground zero of his telling makes painfully clear. Beyond that I can only say that all autobiography relies as much on what’s not said as what is. At the heart of his story is absence and I’ve refrained mightily from filling in the gaps and from correcting his misperceptions. The instances where I’ve given into temptation and inserted my own version are hardly worth mentioning, although to the sensitive reader I’m sure they’re obvious.

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Editorial
CLASH Books
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1955904928
ISBN 13 
9781955904926
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Número de páginas
244
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