cunanan

First published in 1999, Gary Indiana’s Three Month Fever is the second volume of his famed crime trilogy that is being republished by Semiotexte (following Resentment in 2015). 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. His sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace, Three Month Fever is a spellbinding fusion of journalism, social commentary and novelistic projection.

By following Cunanan’s notorious ＂trail of death,＂ Indiana creates a riveting portrait of a brilliant charismatic and 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 elite gay male scene in La Jolla and ended up crazed and alone, and embarking on a three-month killing spree that took the lives of 5 men, including that of Versace before killing himself in a Miami boathouse, leaving behind a range of perplexing questions and unanswerable mysteries.