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Who is Charlie Conti?
Author(s): Claus von Bohlen (Author)
- Publisher: Old Street
- Publication Date: 2 Jun. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1905847491
- ISBN-13: 9781905847495
Book Description
Charlie Conti has just come into his inheritance. Young, rich and alone in the world, he decides to leave the echoing luxury of his Manhattan home and head for Los Angeles. He throws wild parties and everyone comes, but he remains on the outside, an isolated figure. Then he meets Ray Celador. Ray has the eyes of a visionary and the rough, gnarled hands of a lumberjack. He deals in drugs, women and philosophy, and before long he’s indispensable to Charlie: father-figure, teacher, friend. But who, in the end, is Ray Celador? And who when he finds himself stripped of his home, his money and his identity is Charlie Conti? A thriller with a literary twist, this is the story of Charlie’s betrayal, of the theft of his identity and of his attempt to recover what is his. His extraordinary meetings along the way and the magic of America’s vast landscapes are captured by a voice that is innocent, wry and thoughtful.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Completely gripping with moments of genuine strangeness and wonder –Alan Warner
About the Author
Claus von Bohlen was born in London in 1977. Based in Brixton, he works as a writer, translator, documentary filmmaker and part time police officer. His second novel, To Greet the Sun, will be published by Old Street in 2009.
