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"A thriller that reflects a derailed Italian society, a nation deprived of identity, infected by the dreams and nightmares of a US subculture." Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno "A chilling and claustrophobic thriller with an unpredictable ending. Morozzi joins the best in the genre". LINUS"If you want a spine-tingling novel that keeps you mesmerised from beginning to end, Blackout is the book for you." InfiniteStorie"Morozzi has a light touch. He has an uncanny ability to convey mood swings, excitement and plot twists with ever increasing velocity." Gazzetta di Parma
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Bologna in August. Unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return home from her work as a waitress and get out of the skimpy uniform she hates. Tomas is a young man on his way to elope to Amsterdam with his girlfriend Francesca. Aldo is a husband and father with an uncanny resemblance to Elvis Presley, anxious to get to an apartment filled with guilty secrets. All three have an urgent need to be somewhere else. Instead they are trapped in a lift in a deserted building on a holiday weekend. Like three wasps in an upturned glass... and one of the trio is a serial killer.
This dark, twist-packed psychological thriller in the style of Phonebooth has been adapted as a US film to be released in the autumn of 2008, starring Amber Tamblyn and directed by cult Mexican auteur Rigoberto Castañeda.
This dark, twist-packed psychological thriller in the style of Phonebooth has been adapted as a US film to be released in the autumn of 2008, starring Amber Tamblyn and directed by cult Mexican auteur Rigoberto Castañeda.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Trapped in a lift, the huis-clos from hell.,
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This review is from: Blackout (Paperback)
If you can get over the horrific , barbaric first chapter, then you're in for a riveting, relentless suspense : 3 people trapped in a blocked lift on a hot bank holiday, no rescue coming and one of them is a deadly killer.With a superb twist at the end, for once utterly unexpected, it is an uneasy book to 'enjoy', but a definitely good story.
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Stuck in a lift, will they survive?,
By Feanor (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blackout (Paperback)
Gianluca Morozzi has written a neat claustrophobic thriller set in the elevator of a residential building. In Black Out, three individuals, strangers to each other, enter the lift. Shortly thereafter, the power goes out and the trio is trapped between floors. Their back-stories are filled in between chapters that describe the continuously rising paranoia and terror within the cramped quarters of the lift. I'm not giving anything away when I say that one of the three is vicious serial killer, and his is the only background that is really relevant to the story. The other two could have been pilots or scuba-divers for all their lives had any consequence up to the point they are trapped. So far, so good. True to the genre, the innocents have to escape. How though? And is that all to the story? This is where Morozzi cranks up the unlikeliness factor, and the story - to my mind - degenerates to droll fantasy. It is written in that arch, self-consciously-talking-to-the-reader fashion that might grate on some; the staccato sentences might alienate others, but it is a thin book, trying a bit to be too clever, and will serve as a decent page-turner on a short trip to work.
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Claustrophobic,
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This review is from: Blackout (Paperback)
Blackout is a tight story about three very different characters stuck in a lift on a quiet Bank Holiday Sunday. That in itself is rather unremarkable so Morozzi ups the ante, with one of them being a vicious and clever serial killer. That's further spiced up by the girl, a waitress, in tempting attire, which of course is very tempting bait. Morozzi cleverly designs the characters to present a claustrophobic and disturbing environment, with a few twists for good measure. It's a short read, which prevents it from becoming tedious, and subsequently Blackout is a pleasurable, and at times shocking, read.
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