Roberto Acestes Laing was highly regarded by acclaimed directors around the globe for his keen eye, appreciation for eccentricity, and creativity in interpretation. In the mid-'90s a rare-film librarian at a state university in Pennsylvania mysteriously burned his entire stockpile of film canisters and disappeared. In his own words, here is Nicholas Rombes' Book Notes music playlist for his novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing: Stream a playlist of these songs at Spotify. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films-like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually are talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all." "Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. Nichola Rombes' novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is both ambitious and haunting, a masterfully told allegorical tale. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Jesmyn Ward, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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