If you are among those who during a zapping not resistant to black and white images of a woman in a raincoat anxiety runs through the city, Well, do not miss this book.
Bunny Lake Is Missing , published in the U.S. in 1957, along with The Nanny one of the more famous alias Marryam Modell Evelyn Piper (1908-1994), a writer with a past as a model, a secretary and a great traveler. The model, Piper or if you prefer, here is the author of a psychological thriller with a central Blanche Lake, a beautiful single mother, moved from Providence to New York with Bunny, his three year old girl, to escape the evil tongue of province and to hope for a better future "In New York there are many more possibilities ... and then New York is so big and it's easier do not know their facts. " The city life Blanche forces to leave the child in a nursery but on the very first day, leaving no trace of Bunny. And here begins the ordeal of Blanche that not only must strive to find their daughter but must also fight to prove to everyone from police to the many, some memorable, shady characters in the story (but to us players ...), the 'existence of the child. The narrative tension increases
page after page of casting doubts, anxieties, empathy and dislikes. Blanche, the protagonist, is a great character, well-defined, multifaceted, experienced and combative.
New York City, the City of Hope, Blanche becomes in the eyes of a cynical place, indifferent "The people of New York look out the window. Only they do not care when they notice something strange. " Yet, without forgetting its origin from the small state of Rhode Island, the single mother tries to integrate, to adapt to the rhythms and habits of the city that sometimes seem only hinder in the search for Bunny and dry through dialogues that feed the suspense and the sense of unease that pervades the story will remain in suspense until the end.
This is the first title of the series The Dogs, the new Collection of Crime Polillo Publisher which joins the already proven The Dachshund and every fan of thrillers can only applaud this initiative to reprint small unpublished masterpieces - or almost - in our country.
I opened this review with a joke film and cinema with the close. In 1965 the director Otto Preminger directed the film of the same name Bunny Lake Is Missing based on the novel. The film, which has now become a cult, has very little in common with the novel (and not just as a different ending every time we read on the Net). Apart from the basic idea of \u200b\u200bthe missing child from kindergarten, and that no one believes her mother the similarities end there.
The film is set in London and not New York, there are new characters that are missing in book in the book while others are absent altogether or have completely different roles.
It is precisely under these circumstances, the final becomes different. On various magazine covers film that the director has considered uninteresting and inconsistent and that the final literary why has hired two screenwriters, John and Penelope Mortimer, to rewrite the subject.
understanding that the films of Preminger is a great example of style psycho Hitchcock (transmitted by RaiTre late at night on Christmas Eve of 2010, ed), I find the motivation to change ungenerous about the end of Piper, which is final contextualized in the personal history of Blanche. The protagonist
del libro è una single che lotta per affermarsi ed è anche lo strumento dell’autrice per raccontare attraverso la suspense il ruolo sociale della donna in quegli anni, alle prese con i conflitti familiari, i rapporti affettivi, d’amicizia e di buon(?) vicinato. In questo contesto, il finale scritto dalla Piper è perfetto e coerente, che poi non sia cinematografico o che Otto Preminger non l’abbia considerato tale, diminuendo anche l’impatto “protofemminista” della trama, questo è un altro discorso.
Inoltre l’idea della Piper ha continuato a sedurre il cinema, anche se senza alcun riconoscimento, come avranno avuto modo di notare tutti quelli che hanno visto il film Flightplan - Mistero in Flight (2005) starring Jodie Foster.
Bunny Lake Is Missing
, Evelyn Piper, Polillo Editor (The Dogs), 2010 
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