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Bezig met laden... Karaoke and Cold Lazarus (1996)door Dennis Potter
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Playwrite Daniel Feeld is being tormented by his own creations. His latest television play 'Karaoke' (centreing around the sleazy triangle between a young couple and the corrupt manager of the karaoke bar where the young woman works) is beginning to creep its way into the fabric of his own reality. What starts of as a series of strange coincidences, rapidly spiral out of control as Daniel begins to actually meet his own fictional characters in the real world. Or, is he just dreaming them? Slowly the line between reality and fiction gradually merge into one nightmare world. Then, Daniel's is thrown back to Earth with the hard hitting news that he is dying and has only weeks to live. On impulse he decides to change his will, leaving his body to an experimental cryogenics laboratory. He then rushes to set his affairs in order before the end; which includes leaving much of his estate to the young woman who he associates with the character from his story. In a final act, Thus ends Karaoke... Cold Lazarus follows Daniel's continued conscious existence after his natural death. REALITY OR NOTHING! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
'Karaoke and Cold Lazarus are as fitting a summation as they are a testament both to my character and to my career as I should ever want.' Dennis Potter In the first part, Karaoke, Daniel Feeld, a writer, is in a physical crisis: he is dying. He more than half-imagines that something he has recently written has escaped into the world outside. Or is he imagining it? Fact and fiction collide. In this extremity, he has to struggle back towards the relationships and understandings he thought he had managed to do without. In the meantime, the screenplay he's written is being arranged by the director who is blinded by his lust for the leading lady - who has her own secret life and a desire for revenge on the sadistic karaoke club owner who glassed her mother's face.The second part, Cold Lazarus, is set 400 years in the future, where Feeld's cryogenically preserved head is used for historical and social research purposes until an American media tycoon realizes the astronomical ratings potential of a TV show where the 'real' twentieth century history of Daniel Feeld's life, via his chemically induced memories, can be fed to millions of viewers. Whilst Daniel's 'memories' ebb and flow and the TV moguls fight over him, a dissident organization of Luddites, R.O.N. (Reality or Nothing), seeks to return to what they believe to have been a gentler age - the twentieth century. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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