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02498aam a2200361 a 4500 001 4840ACB0B37A11E59CA8ADAFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160105010127 008 150623s2015 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015023614 020 $a 1633880885 020 $a 9781633880887 (softcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3563.C274 $b W66 2015 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a McAlpine, Gordon, $e author. 245 10 $a Woman with a blue pencil : $b a novel / $c Gordon McAlpine. 260 $a Amherst, NY : $b Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books, $c 2015. 263 $a 1511 300 $a 191 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Sam Sumida, a Japanese-American academic, has been thrust into the role of amateur P.I., investigating his wife's murder, which has been largely ignored by the LAPD. Grief stricken by her loss, disoriented by his ill-prepared change of occupation, the worst is yet to come.... Sam discovers that, inexplicably, he has become not only unrecognizable to his former acquaintances but that all signs of his existence (including even the murder he's investigating) have been erased. Unaware that he is a discarded, fictional creation, he resumes his investigation in a world now characterized not only by his own sense of isolation but by wartime fear. Meantime, Sam's story is interspersed with chapters from a pulp spy novel that features an L.A.-based Korean P.I. with jingoistic and anti-Japanese, post December 7th attitudes - the revised, politically and commercially viable character for whom Sumida has been excised. Behind it all is the ambitious, 20-year-old Nisei author who has made the changes, despite the relocation of himself and his family to a Japanese internment camp. And, looming above, is his book editor in New York, who serves as both muse and manipulator to the young author--the woman with the blue pencil, a new kind of femme fatale"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Private investigators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 941 $a 7 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702022819.0 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430020107.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204082045.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110064000.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006091705.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720044513.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20160105012100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4840ACB0B37A11E59CA8ADAFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search