A sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party
boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace.It was
suddenly chic to be "targeted" by Andrew.... It also became chic to
claim a deep personal friendship with Versace, to infer that one
might, but for a trick of fate, have been with Versace at the very
moment of his "assassination," as it had once been chic to reveal
one's invitation to Cielo Drive in the evening of the Tate
slayings, an invitation only declined because of car trouble or a
previous engagement... -from Three Month Fever First published in
1999, Gary Indiana's Three Month Fever is the second volume of his
famed crime trilogy, now being republished by Semiotext(e). (The
first, Resentment, reissued in 2015, was set in a Menendez
trial-era L.A.) In this brilliant and gripping hybrid of narrative
and reflection, Indiana considers the way the media's hypercoverage
transformed Andrew Cunanan's life "from the somewhat poignant and
depressing but fairly ordinary thing it was into a narrative
overripe with tabloid evil." "America loves a successful
sociopath," Indiana explains. This sardonic and artful
reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a
media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace is a spellbinding
fusion of journalism, social commentary, and novelistic projection.
By following Cunanan's notorious "trail of death," Indiana creates
a compelling portrait of a brilliant, charismatic young man whose
pathological lies made him feel more like other people-and more
interesting than he actually was. Born in a working-class exurb of
San Diego and educated at an elite private school, Cunanan strove
to "blend in" with the upscale gay male scene in La Jolla. He ended
up crazed and alone, eventually embarking on a three-month killing
spree that took the lives of five men, including that of Versace,
before killing himself in a Miami boathouse, leaving behind a range
of unanswerable questions and unsolvable mysteries. "Gary Indiana
belongs to a special breed of American urban writers who take cool
pleasure in dissecting the lives of the rich and ugly and is
possibly the most jaded chronicler of them all. On a good day, he
makes Bret Easton Ellis look like Enid Blyton, yet many, myself
included, think he might have already written the Great America
Novel(s)." -Christopher Fowler, The Independent
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