Man In The Dark

the long version

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. Whel sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he wouldprefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and t