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| Author | Amanda Filipacchi |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 289pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-312-34032-X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| OCLC | 57429819 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 22 |
| LC Class | PS3556.I428 L685 2005 |
| Preceded by | Vapor |
Love Creeps (2005) is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean.
Very well received critically in the U.S. and abroad, Love Creeps was praised for its humor and insights into human psychology. It tackles issues of love, desire, obsession, and addiction, framed within a cynical, postmodern urban context.
Authors Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, and Edmund White lauded it on its back cover, and film director Brian Dannelly said of it: "It's a love story of stalkers in New York. It's great. It's the funniest book I've ever read."
Love Creeps was one of The Village Voice's top books of 2005.
Plot summary
Love Creeps is about a triangle of stalkers composed of two men and a woman. They stalk each other obsessively, and then the stalking order changes, illustrating the changeability of an individual's attraction to another, as well as that individual's attractiveness to others.
Awards
France:
- Best Foreign Novel: Love Creeps by Amanda Filipacchi (Editions Denoël): Lauriers Verts de La Forêt des Livres (2006)
U.S.:
- Best book of prose: Love Creeps by Amanda Filipacchi (St. Martin's Press): 2006 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award (Southern Illinois University)
Reviews
"Inventive... hilarious ... style is reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark. It's brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous... Love Creeps is a rare treat. It's intelligent, and perceptive about the slippery nature of desire. And it's extraordinarily funny."—The Boston Globe
"Humorous and sharp... incredibly insightful... Brilliant."—Booklist (Starred review)
"A penetrating work of psychological fiction."—Kirkus Reviews
References
- "DVD Talk (Reviews & Columns)". Retrieved December 8, 2007.
- "Prix Litteraires (Literary Prizes)". Retrieved December 8, 2007.
- "Poets & Writers (Grants & Awards)". Retrieved December 8, 2007.
External links
- Amanda Filipacchi: Official Website
- Filipacchi interviewed about Love Creeps on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC (audio):
- Interview with Amanda Filipacchi about Love Creeps KGBBarLit.
- Boston Globe review of Love Creeps
- Love Creeps listed in The Village Voice's top 25 books of the year