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...general rule, writers of fiction are flabbergasted when they read their first screenplays. The dialogue is eye-strainingly self-conscious, the characters flail about with disingenuous emotions and the "stage" directions describe less than clues on a treasure map. Geoff Nicholson's newest novel, Bleeding London, is a book that should have been a screenplay...
...Nicholson constructs the book as a series of vignettes that ricochet between various times and modes of exposition--several scenes are unveiled as journal entries--but that all converge on London. Not surprisingly, the city becomes the novel's catchall metaphor, and therein lies the book's essential problem: to complete the metaphor, the characters get stitched rather awkwardly into the narrative, as if merely to cover holes in its fabric, and the clumsiness of their insertion detracts from the clever manipulations of Nicholson's plot...
...Then Nicholson throws his change-up. The very next scene reads as an undated journal entry from a guy named Stuart (in you guessed it) London. But unlike Nicholson's earlier chapters, "The Walker's Diary: The Penultimate Days" gives a man's account of London meanderings and musings that is wistful, genuine, eerie and, above all, nuanced. It is, in fact, so scintillating that it shines light on another flaw in Nicholson's text: it needs to be written in the first person. The peculiarities of Nicholson's style--in particular, his penchant for sprawling over-description--sound flat...
ARRESTED. TODD MICHAEL VOLPE, 48, high-wheeling art dealer whose star clientele included Jack Nicholson; on 38 counts of mail and wire fraud; in Waterville Valley, N.H. A connoisseur of turn-of-the-century artwork, Volpe allegedly swindled his clients out of more than $2.5 million by using such tactics as passing off counterfeit works and secretly selling art that was on consignment...
...Sundays ago in Cho and Sue-Ling's common room, Nicholson was remembering what sports Cabot had won sophomore year, coming up with A-league and coed basketball, hockey and softball...