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Love and Death on Long Island
Fiction
A short novel, inspired by Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice,' about a reclusive English writer who becomes obsessed with a young American film actor. Timothy Gowers held it up as the high point of Adair's fiction, describing it as having a kind of perfection he didn't want to spoil for new readers.
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Timothy Gowers
“the book has a kind of perfection about it that I don't want to spoil.”
In his 2011 blog tribute to Gilbert Adair, Gowers singled this novel out as Adair's most perfectly realized work.