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Title
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VICARIOUS |
| Author |
Nick Mur |
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Grade or Focus |
From ages 10
to 100. Essentially it is a book thought to be for all ages. Adult
Fiction/Suspenseful/Supernatural Romance. |
| Type
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45,850
Words |
Keyword &
Market Focus
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Love, Hate,
Treason, Death, Obscure, Cinematic, Speed of narration, Like a Comic-Book,
Ghosts, Killers, Mafia, New York, Egypt, AIDS, Actress, Dark, Superpowers,
Grotesque, Shakespeare, Irony.
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| Synopsis |
Since the
beginning of time, Man feared only one thing more then anything
else: Death. Joseph Surgeon was a professional killer, a merciless
hit-man, interested only in the money, but he had a peculiarity: he
could see the face of the other world, the dead world and the Death
itself. Using his skill he was able to become the best sharpshooter
on the market. But unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) for him,
one night he caught the AIDS virus from a prostitute and Death
came to visit him. Instead of taking his life away it made a very
strange demand: indeed the “entity” made of that overwhelmed
assassin its own delegate; giving him supernatural powers and
leaving the man his assignment until indefinite time. So it begins
the unusual adventure of Surgeon, the new Death, who will have to
deal with his past, with the fact that seeing people die at his
touch isn’t exactly the same thing as killing them from a distance.
As if it wasn’t enough, he falls in love with the young actress
Natalie and he must live with the fact that it is impossible to love
her as he should. Until the day in which the old Death will come
back concluding its grotesque plan. |
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Author
Bio |
Nick Mur was born in Italy
on April 16 1983. He achieved his Diploma in the “A. Gramsci” Classic Lyceum in
Olbia City and then the Graduation in “Classic Literature” in Sassari University
in 2005. He obtained the Italian Second Level Graduation (Equal to the American
MA) in Archaeology in the same University in 2007. He also published in Italy
four novels attracting good judgments by the critic. To know more about it, see
the website:
www.nickmur.com
He is a member of the Italian Association of Classic Culture. |
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Other
Information |
“Vicarious has been suggested by the critic as a new form of narrative, closer
to the Cinema World and easy to transpose on the screen.”
“The Death’s
theme offers in the romance “Vicarious” very interesting suggestions, and it’s
tackled with the point of view of the man who must replace it, a man who in the
passage from the materialistic to the spiritual finds out the real worth
of life. The romance goes on with a double thematic, the former of the man who
makes himself entity, compelled, so to accept the human limits in divine terms,
the latter of the god who makes himself human, refusing the
evident possibilities of his nature. The location in New York precariously
poised between debuting movie-stars, Italo-American mafia and the presence of
ironic figures, gives birth to a series of collisions of events in the bounds of
the grotesque, irreverent and funny, but sometimes touching and moving. In
effect, the most amazing thing in all this, is the young age of the writer, who
was only twenty years old when he wrote it and he’s been able to write an opera
that recalls Stefano Benni’s books. “Vicarious” has been able to combine many
references, both literary and cinematographic. The key of the success of this
romance is decidedly in the plurality of voices and in the dynamics of the text,
that accompany the reader to intrigues and discoveries ‘till the end, over 200
pages later […].”
By Flavia
Weisghizzi (Examiner of the “Agenzia Letteraria il Segnalibro” of Rome).
Credits and details.
Original Title: Vicarius
Translated from Italian into English by Eleonora Bosi.
Edited in the USA by “Writers Literary Publishing and Services Company”.
Edited in Italy by Pat Holland.
Other
collaborators in Italy: Giuseppe Serpillo, Angela Vistarchi, Loredana Salis. |
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