Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb – Review

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Now You See Him: A Novel by Eli Gottlieb

Ten years of silence followed Eli Gottlieb’s prize-winning debut The Boy Who Went Away. But now he’s back with the story of – guess what – a young writer whose first volume of stories was “for one whole season the must-have fashion accessory” and who suffers a complete breakdown through the burden of over-expectation. A racy narrative about a writer who murders his girlfriend seems to have everything: “good looks, talent, the New York skyline and a bad end”; but though there’s a certain schadenfreude reading about “young hedge-fund managers eager to drink fancy vodkas and wax expansive about the day’s killings”, it’s hard not to feel that the book has been so long in coming it has missed its time slot.

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