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Daniel Paisner is the author of twenty books, including The New York Times best-sellers Mountain, Get Out of My Way (with Montel Williams) and Exposing Myself (with Geraldo Rivera). His most recent title, The Ball, was named on eof the top ten sports books of 1999 by Amazon.com. Obit is his first novel.
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Axel Pimlitz, age 37, works for the Boston Record-Transcript in this first novel by Paisner ( Heartlands: An American Odyssey ). Other reporters move on to the news desk, but Axel, who calls adult fantasy phone lines a few times each day and masturbates in a graveyard when he's feeling particularly down, has been writing obits for 15 years. The apparent suicide of Andy Vaughn, a Boston University student, followed by the murder of a high school athlete, marks the beginning of a tortuous path out of self-absorption for Axel, who is the first to learn the victims' fathers had served together in Vietnam. Axel, who occasionally escapes to a reservoir deep under Boston proper, forms an attachment to Andy's mother, Margo, while a Boston cop discovers that both victims had had sex with the same young woman just hours before their deaths. Despite his overburdened plot--which includes an outrageous red herring and telegraphed conclusion--Paisner's breezy writing style and frequently sharp characterizations make him a promising entrant in the genre.
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- PublisherDutton Adult
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0525249206
- ISBN 13 9780525249207
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages292
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