DOUBLE LIFE OF DANIEL GLICK

by First Last

Daniel Glick's entire family disappeared the night of the earthquake, as did so many others. At least that's what he tells people. He was at the circus when it struck and he just managed to escape as the circus tent fell onto all the spectators below. All the clocks in the city stopped at twenty minutes past eight and they will only start up again when the next one is due. That is what they say, and Daniel has thought about nothing else for the last two years. His wife Marina got sick and tired of listening to the same old stories and one day she too was gone. They'd only been married a year. The neighbors asked themselves what could have become of his wife, one day she's there, the next she's gone. They called the police who took up all the floorboards and found nothing, not a thing. Daniel told them over and over that he would never hurt a fly, and that is the truth. Yet someone follows him wherever he goes, watching his every move to see what he does next, but Daniel Glick is just keeping an eye on the clocks of the city waiting for them to start ticking again, because this time he is prepared.

100 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2007

Reviews

[Debora Griffith]

I found this book really unsettling and it left me with so many questions.
Where was it set for one?

[Gaz]

This was a delightful and funny read. Nothing too heavy with plenty of sharp and humourous observations from the central character. Any guy who compares breasts to two sleeping kittens is pretty much a dude in my opinion, despite being an oddball. He reminded me a little of Holden Caulfield. Less intense but still barking! Apparently there are similarities in a book by Andrew Crumey called Music, in a Foreign Language. I'll be sure to check it out.

[Sonja Trbojevic]

Daniel Glick reminded me of Holden Caulfield, an untrustworthy narrator. The reader is given his version of events, and then must work out the truth from the additional information added, again by Glick himself. Set in an unspecified and brutal regime, in the aftermath of a disaster, there is an underlying feeling of menace and unreality to this tale.