The Angelic Darkness

The Angelic Darkness

by RichardZimler (Author)

Synopsis

Bill Ticino's fruitless and numbing marriage finally breaks up. Plagued by insomnia and spiritually lost, Bill finds a loger as the solution to his problems; a handsome, charismatic Portuguese man named Peter. Bill finds himself drawn into a world of kabbalistic storytelling, charms and ritual. Peter ignites Bill's repressed obsessions by telling him emotionally charged tales of hidden meaning. One night they venture into the Tenderloin district, a dead-end world of prostitutes and transvestites. Bill begins to see that his new tenant has plans that will force him down a perilous sexual and spiritual path, with the power to both redeem and destroy.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 247
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 10 Dec 1999

ISBN 10: 1900850303
ISBN 13: 9781900850308

Media Reviews
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The candid first-person narrative generates suspense, as well as a deep concern for the narrator... Zimmler is skilled at evoking an eerie San Francisco underworld - Publisher's Weekly A beautiful book. Zimmler writes with great emotion and humour. This story of love and mystery invites the reader along on a rite of passage- a voyage of discovery of a man in search of his own emotional and sexual identity. Elle
Author Bio
Richard Zimler, born in 1956 in New York, has lived in Portugal since 1990, where he is a professor of journalism at the University of Porto. His short fiction, which has appeared in Britain in the London Magazine and in America in The James White Review, won the 1994 Panurge Prize. Zimler is the author of numerous novels, including The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (1997), one of Arcadia's most successful books, and Angelic Darkness (1999).