Böcker av Brent Robison

A manuscript arrives in the mail, sent by mistake. It asks the question: What if your private life was made public by someone you've never met? Stories within stories tell of two men: a photographer whose life is upended as he seeks the elusive writer who's invaded his world, and the writer who exploits his newfound gift for telling tales and violating boundaries. But is any of this real? If such a book arrived anonymously on your doorstep, could you just let it go? An obsessive search for the author becomes a hall of mirrors, echoed both inside and outside the mystery manuscript. Where is truth? Who owns your life story? And where do stories come from, anyway?

Benedict Arnold Rose is a filmmaker in a troubled marriage. As he begins a documentary on the 1777 burning of New York's first capital, Kingston, by the British, his history-focused life is suddenly derailed. He faces shadowy assassins with multiple identities, indoctrination in a dark cell, seduction, betrayal, the finality of fire, and the unexpected kindness of a stranger. He must journey within, but what is real? And who is asking? Coincidence and paradox abound as Rose finds his way to a new life...but the questions without answers still remain.Encounters with a fictional version of the well-known author Paul Auster, and with a mercenary soldier who is also a devotee of the Indian spiritual guru Nisargadatta Maharaj, entwine the metafictional with the metaphysical in a speculative swirl of mystery, history, and self-inquiry.Brent Robison is the author of a story collection, The Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility, and a novel, A Book with No Author. He lives with his wife in the Catskill Mountains.