Love Creeps
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Love Creeps (2005) is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean.
Very well received critically in the U.S. and abroad, Love Creeps was praised for its humor and insights into human psychology. It tackles issues of love, desire, obsession, and addiction, framed within a cynical, postmodern urban context.
Authors Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, and Edmund White lauded it on its back cover, 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."
Love Creeps was one of the The Village Voice's top books of 2005.
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Plot summary
Love Creeps is about a triangle of stalkers composed of two men and a woman. They stalk each other obsessively, and then the stalking order changes, illustrating the changeability of an individual's attraction to another, as well as that individual's attractiveness to others.
Awards
France:
- Best Foreign Novel: Love Creeps by Amanda Filipacchi (Editions Denoël): Lauriers Verts de La Forêt des Livres (2006)
U.S.:
- Best book of prose: Love Creeps by Amanda Filipacchi (St. Martin's Press): 2006 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award (Southern Illinois University)
Film
Since November 2007, film rights have been under option to Scope Invest (Geneviève Lemal at Scope Pictures), the company that produced "The Child" ("L'Enfant"), winner of the 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or Award. Love Creeps will be developed in collaboration with producers Alexandra Milchan and Aimée Peyronnet.
Reviews
"Inventive... hilarious ...[Amanda Filipacchi's] style is reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark. It's brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous... Love Creeps is a rare treat. It's intelligent, and perceptive about the slippery nature of desire. And it's extraordinarily funny."—The Boston Globe
"Humorous and sharp... incredibly insightful... Brilliant."—Booklist (Starred review)
"A penetrating work of psychological fiction."—Kirkus Reviews
