Love Creeps

Love Creeps
Author Amanda Filipacchi
Country United States
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Publication date
 2005
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 289pp
ISBN 0-312-34032-X
OCLC 57429819
813/.54 22
LC Class PS3556.I428 L685 2005
Preceded by Vapor

Love Creeps (2005) is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean. It tackles issues of love, desire, obsession, and addiction.[1]

Plot summary

Love Creeps is about a woman who has lost her desire - so she decides to emulate her stalker, and become a stalker herself.[2]

Critical reception

Authors Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, and Edmund White provided blurbs, and film director Brian Dannelly said of it: "It's a love story of stalkers in New York. It's great. It's the funniest book I've ever read."[3]

Writing for the Boston Globe, Diane White compared Filipacci's style to that of Muriel Spark and described Love Creeps as "extraordinarily funny".[1]

Awards

U.S.:

France:

  • Best Foreign Novel: Love Creeps (Editions Denoël): Lauriers Verts de La Forêt des Livres (2006)[6]

References

  1. 1 2 White, Diane (June 12, 2005). "Exploring the slippery nature of desire". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/307579.Love_Creeps
  3. ↑ "DVD Talk (Reviews & Columns)". Retrieved December 8, 2007.
  4. ↑ "Devil's Kitchen Award Winners". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Love Creeps listed in The Village Voice's top 25 books of the year". Archived from the original on August 29, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Prix Litteraires (Literary Prizes)". Retrieved December 8, 2007.


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