Ebook {Epub PDF} What You See in the Dark by Manuel Muñoz

`What You See in the Dark' is not a book directly about the filming of `Psycho'. Yes, that plays a prominent part in the story structure and telling, and it does lace some very interesting scenes and parallel the main focus of the story, but names are never dropped and even the title of the film itself is never used, although implications make /5(29). Discuss why you think the novel delayed this introduction and what effect it had on the characterization of Teresa. 6. In the diner scene in chapter 5, the Actress touches the hand of Carter, the driver, who returns the gesture with a “light, downward feather of a touch, just once” (page 99) .  · “[A] stellar first novel with a subtlety worthy of Hitchcock himself.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review The long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explores the sinister side of desire in Bakersfield, California, circa , when a famous director arrives to scout locations for a film about madness and murder at a roadside www.doorway.ru: Manuel Munoz.

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What You See in the Dark [Munoz, Manuel] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. What You See in the Dark. Manuel Muñoz is the author of two short story collections, the most recent of which, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He teaches creative writing at the university of Arizona in Tucson, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, and in. What You See in the Dark. Muñoz’s first novel, What You See in the Dark, was published in Set in ’s Bakersfield, it tells the story of Teresa, a young and aspiring singer too far away from Los Angeles to share that city’s glamour. In Dan Watson, the most desirable young man in town, she believes she has found someone to help her realize those dreams.