num_pages: 335
description: Among the multifaceted characters whose lives interlock are Alejandro, a once-prominent literary critic fallen into disfavor; his estranged wife, Mercedes, whom he suspects of openly conducting an affair with an American writer; Bonny, the writer’s runaway daughter, who is made to witness a calamitous sequence of events that culminates in murder; Preston, an American industrialist, and his sexually frustrated wife, Rita; and the unscrupulous art dealer Pech. As the lives of these people press together, as they buckle and collapse, the novel holds up a mirror to a moment in which we lived―the end of a millennium, of an era― and to the perils, temptations, and hysteria that lie just below the surface.
language: English
title: Eclipse Fever
titlecomplete: Eclipse Fever (Nonpareil Books)
genres: The United States Of America, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 69
publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher