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Title: Triangulation
Publisher: Crown
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0517575396
ISBN 13: 9780517575390
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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An eclectic cast of characters includes Guy Feldspar, an epidemiologist receiving anonymous love notes via personal ads; Sophie Turner, victim of a hit-and-run driver; an antihistamine-addicted artist; a kleptomaniac fortune teller; an amateur astonomer;and unconventional night-shift detectives

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Stephens has chosen an aptly metaphoric title--it refers to the practice of discovering an unknown location by using two known coordinates--for his first novel, a densely populated, carefully calculated voyage into Thomas Pynchon territory. Prefacing his narrative with a lengthy list of characters, most of whom are unconnected with any of the others, the author sets up their lives, in and around Baltimore, and then puts into motion the bizarre coincidences which will bring them together. A driven epidemiologist specializing in AIDS, his low-risk girlfriend, a psychotic performance artist, a malformed woman who longs for a child and an astronomer are among Stephens's creations, initially linked only by the painfully arch names (Meander, Feldspar, Magellanic) they're been given. Though the author comes up with some virtuoso passages of triple narrative, alternating story lines sentence by sentence, the novel becomes a patience-straining enterprise in which the characters are no more than the sums of their names, their psychic or physical deformities (almost every one of them has one or the other) and the overly mechanical paces through which they are put.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Despite exquisite prose, this first novel appears almost hallucinogenic. Initially, it is difficult to discern the destinies of the many enigmatic characters, introduced in seemingly disconnected vignettes that finally converge during the book's closing debacle. We follow the difficulties of epidemiologist Guy Feldspar, an arsonist addicted to antihistamines, an injured hit-and-run victim, an astronomer wishing to discover a new comet, a kleptomaniac fortune teller, a Thalidomide victim who desperately desires a child, and two night-shift detectives who use the deductive reasoning of triangulation to solve crimes. Stephens's impressive credentials--he is founding editor of Galileo Press and has won numerous fellowships--underscore his superb writing, truly this book's best quality.
- Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, M.D.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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