Love Creeps
Encyclopedia
Love Creeps 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.
U.S.:
)
"Humorous and sharp... incredibly insightful... Brilliant."—Booklist (Starred review)
"A penetrating work of psychological fiction."—Kirkus Reviews
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by American writer Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi is an American writer best known for her humorous, inventive, and controversial novels.Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages and has received critical acclaim in the U.S. and around the world.-Writing career:...
. 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
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 different languages. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney...
, Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.-Life:Her parents, a psychiatrist father, Julian Janowitz, and...
, and Edmund White
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...
lauded it on its back cover, and film director Brian Dannelly
Brian Dannelly
Brian Dannelly is an American film director and screenwriter best known for his work on the 2004 film Saved!.-Early life:Dannelly was born in Würzburg, Germany before moving with his family to Baltimore, Maryland aged eleven. He attended a Catholic elementary school, Arlington Baptist High School...
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
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
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:
U.S.:
- Best book of prose:
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...
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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
External links
- Amanda Filipacchi: Official Website
- Filipacchi interviewed about Love Creeps on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYCWNYCWNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations located in New York City.WNYC broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM is at 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of National Public Radio and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs...
(audio): http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/07/24 - Interview with Amanda Filipacchi about Love Creeps KGBBarLit.
- Boston Globe review of Love Creeps
- Love Creeps listed in The Village Voices top 25 books of the year