Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway
�As the year closes and the endless summer light turns once more to dark
from the palaces of Venice and beyond
In this book he names names and provides receipts
claustrophobic and macabre
The Imagined Life - Andrew Porter Paperback / softback Arne and Tove are stayingA taut, elegiac, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving up the coast of California, Steven seeks out his father's friends, family, and former colleagues, and is transported back to his 1980s childhood: his parents' legendary pool parties, black and white films on the backyard