Love in the Modern Landscape

Love in the Modern Landscape offers an unusual blend of evil and intelligence endangering a pair of lovers who appear unequal to the threat. A distillation of the fear and evil in the modern landscape, especially in a nighttime city, Everett Stadt has earned a reputation as the dossier rapist, who observes his victims and displays uncanny insight, which he repeats at leisure during his assaults. His new, prospective victim, Jenny MacGregor, comes to Washington from rural Virginia and...
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Love in the Modern Landscape offers an unusual blend of evil and intelligence endangering a pair of lovers who appear unequal to the threat. A distillation of the fear and evil in the modern landscape, especially in a nighttime city, Everett Stadt has earned a reputation as the dossier rapist, who observes his victims and displays uncanny insight, which he repeats at leisure during his assaults. His new, prospective victim, Jenny MacGregor, comes to Washington from rural Virginia and finds a boyfriend, Jeremy Settler, when they meet in acting classes. Jennys energy and innocence are matched by Jeremys monumental strength and immaturity. Bit by bit, with patient brilliance, their antagonist assimilates a staggering array of information focusing on Jenny while she falls in love with Jeremy. Everett and Jeremy also fall in love with Jenny as she changes from an indecisive figure to an actress who commands the stage both literally and figuratively. In love with acting, sports, the countryside, and one another, Jeremy and Jenny overcome their lack of trust in people while the danger posed by Everett grows more menacing. After staving off a violent attack, she finds the citys nighttime peril bordering on the unbearable. She hears from Everett, sets a trap to catch him, and then watches it disintegrate in Everetts favor. In the final showdown, featuring a chase across a lethal landscape separating her from Jeremy, Jenny has one chance to save herselfand takes it.