Find a Fallen Star is a fascinatingly multilayered work in which Petersen has let her imagination roam freely.
Two versions of Lorre face each other in uneasy connection: there's the respected Brechtian actor Peter Lorre (rhymes with "Gomorrah") versus Peter Lorre (rhymes with "sorry"), Hollywood's simulacrum of everything foreign, alien and fascinatingly toad-like.
But there was something about Russian literature, indeed about "Russianness", that tugged at her ever since her first violin lessons with a fascinatingly odd Russian man named Maxim.
By pooling people and machines even to make rival companies' products side-by-side Flextronics can cut production coside-by-side Flextronicse world now makeside-by-side Flextronicsy descanbed in this book.
"Kinship Theory" is an intelligent and enjoyable novel, and a choice example of how the line between literature and science fiction has fascinatingly blurred.
"For the first time the consumer is boss, which is fascinatingly frightening, scary and terrifying, because everything we used to do, everything we used to know, will no longer work," says Kevin Roberts, chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, part of Publicis.
Even the minority that declared his earlier films to be honourable failures, or exercises in intellectual tedium, had to agree that, of all directors, he remained the most recklessly volatile and his development the most fascinatingly unpredictable.
For psychology has rendered the self more exposed but also more elusive, more fascinatingly complex and, in the darker reaches, somewhat unpalatable.
His gigantic journals offer an unrivaled self-revelation of a fascinatingly checkered character and career whether as a young rake in London or thrusting himself upon the aged Rousseau or making his way to Voltaire's seclusion at Ferney in Switzerland with the aim of converting that celebrated skeptic to Christianity.
Sweeney Todd is above all cracking high class entertainment with a pulsating score and a fascinatingly lurid cast of characters that is at times little more than a singing freak show – though it is none the worse for that.
Tsiolkas's reading at a Bloomsbury basement bar had been organised by the bookshop Gay's the Word, so the clue was in the title, but I was thrown at first, to be among an audience with shared affinities that reared themselves – fascinatingly – during the discussion.
