Published: Sep. 21, 2011
Words: 83,482 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781780690360

Short description

When Michael creates a virtual character to seduce his wife, he quickly loses control over his creation, slipping into a world where he no longer knows where reality ends and fiction begins. And he begins to wonder if he is writing himself out of existence.

Extended description

He couldn't remember when he had stopped seeing himself in her eyes, their marriage becoming simply a collection of memories, where only the mundane held them together.

It seemed so simple at first … creation. Characters whose lives he carved out in his novel. And now this - a man created in his own image and likeness, stepping out of the virtual into the real, in order to seduce his wife.

But Michael quickly loses control over his creation and slips into a world where he no longer knows where reality ends and fiction begins. And he begins to wonder if he is writing himself out of existence.

At what point does fiction turn to lies? And lies themselves in turn become real?

Tags

creation, laughing, david, died, lloyd

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Review by: Karen Budd on Dec. 12, 2011 :
David’s narrative is deceptively simple. He engages you with a chatty and comfortable style of writing before exploding some of the bombs of his ideas over your head. The reader is free to be swept along with the story without getting weighed down in ponderous descriptions. The character development is thorough, and the author allows them to be themselves, with their own motivations and actions, without telling the reader how we should be reacting to them.

I don’t think I need to review the story, as the plot synopsis is enough there, but it’s not just a simple tale of one relationship. Along the way we encounter all sorts of relationships – ‘real-life’ friendships and love, and online interactions, both between ‘real’ identities and identity constructs.

David’s book challenges the safe idea that ‘real relationships are good and online relationships are bad’ that we are fed by the media – but, true to reality, you’re left feeling that there are pitfalls to be negotiated in both.
(reviewed long after purchase)

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