Dream Girl by Laura Lippman7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Gerry is aided during the day by an efficient, nondescript personal assistant Victoria and at night by dowdy Aileen, whom Gerry describes to himself as “not-so-little teapot, short and stout,” to neither of whom he pays much attention. ![]() ![]() Laura Lippman's sly, darkly funny new horror novel, “Dream Girl,” winks at Stephen King's “Misery” and Alfred Hitchcock's “Rear Window” in a tale of a bedridden novelist whose past may be coming back to haunt him.Įven before he fell down the artsy but dangerous staircase in his upscale Baltimore apartment, leaving himself confined to bed for months and drifting in a narcotic haze, aging novelist Gerry Anderson was in trouble.īogged down by writer's block, fending off the editor who is hounding him for a long overdue novel, fearing the kind of dementia that has felled his mother, and facing the repercussions of his recent third divorce, 61-year-old Gerry feels that “the modern world is forever flummoxing” him. ![]()
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