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Dread

Robert Steiner

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Robert Steiner, a professor of literature and author of three previous novels, has written an astonishing work in which the nature of place (its unforgivable certainty of being) and the structure of person (his or her character) seem to be one and the same: mask over mask.

Dread is a bicameral novel that begins with the voyage of a psychiatrist, his wife and two friends through the Levant. This is no vacation. The psychiatrist is in need of one; his wife is depressingly depressed, and the two friends fade before the definition. At Venice, that symbol of marble awash with decay, another passenger boards: Keller, a mysterious figure who seduces both the psychiatrist's reason and his wife. Soon the Mediterranean sun is melting secrets like cocoa butter, and the bleached deck resembles a floating proscenium.

(Los Angeles Times -- January 10, 1988)

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