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Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi is the author of four novels: Nude Men, Vapor, Love Creeps, and, just out, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty (W. W. Norton, Feb. 2015). Her fiction has appeared in Best American Humor and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,... show more

Amanda Filipacchi is the author of four novels: Nude Men, Vapor, Love Creeps, and, just out, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty (W. W. Norton, Feb. 2015). Her fiction has appeared in Best American Humor and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. She earned an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She lives in New York.
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Birth date: January 01, 1967
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wesleylau
wesleylau rated it 11 years ago
Review Summary: Without a doubt, one of the strangest books I have ever read. Interestingly written with an immediate appeal, an unfortunately slow build-up, but just enough intrigue to keep me reading and surprisingly serious revelations at the end. The first line is great: "For months I had been t...
nouveau
nouveau rated it 11 years ago
as per the entry above/back cover description, this is a "captive love" book, where the guy keeps the girl captive, at least with some sort of twist-- he's a cloud scientist and uses his magical realism technique in a variation of the Pygmalion myth; variant of other "captive love-slave" stories.at ...
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