Ulla Danielsson Libri

Londra.Charlotte, la giovane figlia del deputato conservatore Eve Bowen, affascinante quanto ambizioso sottosegretario agli interni, viene rapita.E Dennis Luxford, direttore senza scrupoli di un giornale scandalistico ferocemente avverso al governo, riceve una lettera che gli intima di di riconoscere sulla prima pagina del tabloid la paternità di Charlotte, pena la morte della piccola. Quale mistero si cela dietro il feroce ricatto? L'ombra del sospetto avvolge tutto e tutti.Tocca all'ispettore Thomas Lynley di Scotland Yard trovare lo stretto sentiero della verità : un compito tanto più ingrato, dopo che il terribile dramma si è trasformato in tragedia.

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.