Madeleine E.

"A commonplace book, arranging works of criticism looking at Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with fragments of memoir/fiction. Presented first as random notes on watching Hitchcock, the fragments soon take up multiple narratives and threads and, like a classic Hitchcock movie, present competing realities. Fragments from a dizzying list of authors, from Truffaut to Philip K. Dick and Geoff Dyer to Bruno Schultz, are meticulously arranged in a fascinating, multilayered reading experience."--Amazon.com A commonplace book, arranging passages from critics considering Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, along with fragments of memoir and fiction. Presented first as random notes on watching the legendary film, the meticulously arranged fragments soon take up multiple threads and, like a classic Hitchcock movie, present competing realities. A Fascinating Hybrid Work, Compiling Fragments Of Criticism, Theory, Philosophy And Fiction, With Hitchcock's Masterpiece At The Center.