Tom Rachman's 'The Imposters,' about an aging novelist spinning alternate histories, bears faint echoes of his acclaimed debut, 'The Imperfectionists.'
,” vaulted the author to the literary fore — and with good reason. An ingeniously structured series of nearly stand-alone stories about the international staff of an English-language newspaper in Rome, the book brims with youthful exuberance, as if Rachman, who worked in Rome and Paris as a journalist, were discovering in real time his gift for wrangling the world into a narrative form that honors its bewildering complexity.
Despite the global settings, the true stage here is the novelist’s page: Dora imagines herself into the perspectives of family, friends, ex-lovers and strangers, repurposing their lives for personal ends. In the opening chapter, we meet Dora’s husband, Barry, a divorce lawyer turned marriage counselor, whom she wed late in life because she wanted someone to “monitor her, and tell her when to act” — meaning to end her own life.
The stories Dora tells, then, are not exactly autobiographical; rather, they record the various concerns and emotions and regrets of her existence. In between the longer third-person chapters are short sections in the first-person. “These sentences are fact,” Dora informs us, “I’m writing as myself. … But every other chapter will describe another character.
One chapter features a former lover of Dora’s, a Jewish American food writer with whom she tagged along to “exquisite dining” excursions in Paris in her early 20s. The food writer, Alan, still lives in Paris with his and Dora’s 50-something son, Benjamin. Dora fretted over the health of the fetus, as “the suffering of a handicapped child was more than Dora could contemplate.
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