What You See in the Dark - Paperback

from RidgewayGirl

Manuel Munoz's novel has the feel of film noir, from the classic story of girl with dreams meets boy and things go horribly wrong, to the fading Hollywood actress sent to film a handful of scenes for a new movie in Bakersfield, California. There's a crime here, but no mystery, unless it lays in t...

from whitreidtan

Brooding, atmospheric, and with the feel of film noir threading its pages, Manuel Munoz's novel What You See in the Dark is unlike my normal reads, edging close to claustrophobia and hinting of menace. A multi-stranded narrative weaving the tale of a solitary, poor girl, Teresa, and her developin...

from jayne_charles

This is an unashamedly literary novel whose preoccupation is less with telling a story in all its constituent parts and more with creating atmosphere and examining themes to do with films in general and the film “Psycho” in particular. I've never seen Psycho, and maybe I would have got along bett...

from BlackSheepDances

Change-both progressive and regressive-is the theme of this quiet thriller set in Bakersfield, California in the 1950s. Three stories are told that intersect in varying ways, leaving the concept of "what you see in the dark" meaning entirely different things. Darkness is the time to ruminate over...

from majesdane

It's not a terrible book, technically, but I didn't enjoy it at ALL. I basically had to force myself to finish it.