An American Novel
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Vlad Eisinger, a journalist at The Wall Street Tribune, is publishing a series of articles about life settlement, a little-known practice that allows senior or terminally-ill people to sell their life insurance policies to private investors. The buyer keeps paying the annual premiums and collects the death benefit when the seller eventually dies. Vlad draws most of his anecdotes from Destin Terrace, a close-knit community in Destin, Fla. Each article – they come out every Tuesday for seven consecutive weeks – brings its share of disturbing revelations: Bruce, the flight attendant, sold his policy in the ‘80s when he was diagnosed with AIDS; Steve, the dentist who purchased Bruce’s policy, is mad at him for not dying; Brian, an ex-doctor, writes up life expectancy reports from his basement; his wife Sharon, a nurse, earns a finder’s fee for each elderly client of hers she convinces to sell their policy.
Dan Siver used to be Vlad’s roommate, back when they were studying comparative literature at Columbia University. Vlad has become a successful journalist, Dan a struggling novelist who lives in Destin Terrace, in the small house he inherited from his mother.
The book goes back and forth between Vlad’s articles and Dan’s observations as his neighbors react to the ever-bigger stories unfolding week after week. The two men also revive a long-running spat about the respective merits of journalism and literature, before a final, unexpected twist.
Antoine Bello
Antoine Bello est un auteur de langue française, né à Boston en 1970. Il vit à New York. En 1996, il publie un recueil de nouvelles, Les funambules, aux Editions Gallimard. Couronnés du prix littéraire de la Vocation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, ces cinq textes mettent en scène des personnages surhumains lancés à la poursuite d'une perfection inaccessible. Le premier roman d'Antoine Bello, Eloge de la pièce manquante (1998) remporte un grand succès et est traduit dans une dizaine de langues. L'histoire se déroule dans l'univers fictif du puzzle de vitesse. Le roman se présente sous la forme de cinquante pièces - articles de journaux, rapports, interviews - sans cohérence apparente. Suivent deux romans formant un dyptique, Les falsificateurs (2007) et Les éclaireurs (2009), qui content l'ascension d'un jeune Islandais, Sliv Dartunghuver, au sein d'une organisation secrète internationale qui falsifie la réalité et réécrit l'histoire. Les Eclaireurs ont reçu le Prix France Culture - Telerama. En 2010, Enquête sur la disparition d'Emilie Brunet joue avec les codes du roman policier en rendant hommage à Agatha Christie et Edgar Poe. En 2012, il publie sur amazon deux nouvelles, L'Actualité et Légendes, initialement conçues pour figurer dans Les falsificateurs. Antoine Bello travaille actuellement à son prochain roman, l'histoire d'un jeune footballeur prodigieusement doué qui décline les offres des plus grands clubs pour jouer dans le championnat universitaire et décrocher le titre que son père était sur le point de gagner avant sa mort. Dans une vie précédente, Antoine a créé, développé puis revendu la société Ubiqus, qui propose des services de comptes rendus aux organisateurs de réunions. (Photo : Christopher Michel)
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