Panopticon -(with promotional newsletter loosely laid in)- -(by the author of "The 351 Books of Irma Acuri")- by Bajo, David - 2010

Lakewood, CO, U.S.A.: Unbridled Books, 2010. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Quarter bound red cloth white boards with silver lettering on spine, headband, loosely lalid in promotional material, 370 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "As the California borderland newspaper where they work prepares to close, three reporters are oddly given assignments to return to stories they've covered before, each one surprisingly personal. The first assignment takes reporter Aaron Klinsman & photographer Rita Valdez to an abandoned motel room where the mirrors are draped with towels, bits of black tape cover the doorknobs, and the perfect trace of a woman s body is imprinted on the bed sheets. From this sexually charged beginning on land his family used to own Klinsman, Rita, and their colleague, Oscar Medem understand that they are supposed to uncover something. They just don t know what. Following the moonlit paths their assignments reveal through the bars, factories & complex streets of Tijuana and Otay, haunted by the femicides that have spread westward from Juarez, the reporters become more intimately entwined. Tracing the images they uncover, and those they cause & leave behind, they soon realize that every move they make is under surveillance. Beyond this, it seems their private lives and even their memories are being reconstructed by others. Panopticon is a novel of dreamlike appearances & almost supernatural memories, a world of hidden watchers that evokes the dark recognition of just how little we can protect even our most private moments. It is a shadowy, erotic novel only slightly speculative that opens into the world we all now occupy." Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. 8vo.