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An article on crime novelist Patricia Cornwell finds her obsessive, vengeful, and paranoid, and confirms that she had a lesbian affair with an FBI agent (who was nearly murdered by her husband).
Though less original and not as fully realized, these books reminded me of a pair of recent literary appreciations: Hermione Lee's mammoth biography of Virginia Woolf, and Alain de Botton's idiosyncratic, obsessive How Proust Can Change Your Life . All four books share a playful disregard for the rules that usually govern high-minded "intellectual" biographies.
Indeed, alterations in AVP regulation and secretion are thought to be one possible biochemical abnormality in patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) [ 15 16 17 18 ] . This disorder is characterized by sudden, recurrent thoughts or images that intrude into consciousness (obsessions) driving stereotyped acts that the person feels compelled to perform (compulsions) [ 19 ] . Interestingly, patients with OCD show elevated basal levels of AVP in the cerebrospinal fluid and exaggerated plasma levels of AVP in response to hypertonic challenge [ 16 ] . Many patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, both compulsive eating disorders, have abnormal levels of AVP in the cerebrospinal fluid and plasma [ 15 17 ] . Pediatric patients with severe OCD have low levels of AVP in cerebrospinal fluid, while a subgroup of pediatric patients with compulsive checking rituals has elevated AVP levels [ 18 ] . Hence, there are many clinical examples of compulsive behavior associated with a perturbation in the AVP system.
Macdonald's point was that the obsessive accumulation of data had become an unsatisfactory substitute for formulating notions about what anything meant--an argument that seems even more compelling since the advent of the Internet and all-news cable TV channels.
"This dense, mesmerizing novel will leave readers stunned, as if waking from a horrific sunburnt daydream," pronounces Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly . Says Time 's John Skow of the "quirky trilogy": "a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many."
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