Perfect days

Resource Information

The work Perfect days represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in George F. Johnson Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Perfect days

Statement of responsibility

Raphael Montes ; translated by Alison Entrekin

Creator

• Montes, Raphael, 1990-

Contributor

• Entrekin, Alison

Author

• Montes, Raphael, 1990-

Translator

• Entrekin, Alison

Subject

• Brazil -- Fiction
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
• Medical students -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Stalkers -- Fiction
• Women screenwriters -- Fiction
• Abduction -- Fiction

Genre

• Psychological fiction
• Fiction

Language

• eng
• por
• eng

Summary

"A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk her, first following to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, Teo kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay. Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But as the journey progresses, he keeps digging himself deeper and deeper into a pit that he can't get out of, stopping at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together. Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley--a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a psychopath. It marks the English language debut of one of Brazil's most deliciously dark young writers"--

Member of

• Dias perfeitos

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

869.3/5

Index

no index present

LC call number

PQ9698.423.O6176

LC item number

D5313 2016

Literary form

fiction