- Love Creeps
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name = Love Creeps
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author =Amanda Filipacchi
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country =United States
language = English
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genre =Novel
publisher = St. Martin's Press
release_date = 2005
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media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
pages = 289pp
isbn = ISBN 0-312-34032-X
preceded_by = Vapor
followed_by ="Love Creeps" (2005) is the third
novel by American writerAmanda 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 , andEdmund White lauded it on its back cover, and film directorBrian 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." [cite web|title=DVD Talk (Reviews & Columns)|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/interviews/getting_saved_a.html|publisher=|accessdate=December 8, 2007]"Love Creeps" was one of the "
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) [cite web|title="Prix Litteraires" (Literary Prizes)|url=http://www.prix-litteraires.net/detail_prix_annee.php?annee=2006|publisher=|accessdate=December 8, 2007]U.S.:
*Best book of prose: "Love Creeps" by Amanda Filipacchi (St. Martin's Press): 2006 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award (Southern Illinois University ) [cite web|title=Poets & Writers (Grants & Awards)|url=http://www.pw.org/mag/0701/recentwinners.htm|publisher=|accessdate=December 8, 2007]Film
Since November 2007, film rights have been under option to Scope Invest (Geneviève Lemal at Scope Pictures), the company that produced "The Child" ("L'Enfant"), winner of the 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or Award. "
Love Creeps " will be developed in collaboration with producers Alexandra Milchan and Aimée Peyronnet.Reviews
"Inventive... hilarious ... [Amanda Filipacchi's] 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
External links
* [http://www.AmandaFilipacchi.com Amanda Filipacchi: Official Website]
*Filipacchi interviewed about "Love Creeps" on theLeonard Lopate Show onWNYC (audio): [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/07/24]
* [http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/live/10_1_06_amanda_.html Interview with Amanda Filipacchi about "Love Creeps"] KGBBarLit.
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/12/exploring_the_slippery_nature_of_desire/ "Boston Globe" review of "Love Creeps"]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0550,vls,70946,10.html "Love Creeps" listed in "The Village Voice"'s top 25 books of the year]
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