321 pages
English language
Published Oct. 7, 2003 by Picador, Henry Holt and Co..
4 stars
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Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the world. Zimmer embarks on a journey to study the films, and thus begins a story within a mystery within a fable.
Subjects
- Absence and presumption of death
- Widowers
- Biographers
- Comedians
- Fiction
- Silent films
- Aircraft accident victims' families
- Missing persons