The Dead Heart - Brossura

Kennedy, Douglas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349106452 ISBN 13: 9780349106458

Casa editrice: Abacus, 1995

Riassunto

That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here ... That map had been a serious mistake'

The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape.

'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again. This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr

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Recensione:

Pulls off that most difficult feat of being hilariously funny and frightening at the same time (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

Fluent and entertaining ... a highly accomplished debut... there is an art to telling shaggy-dog stories well, with the right balance of lightness and suspense, and Kennedy shows himself a master of it. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

His story-telling is so deft, and the build-up so detailed and convincing, that the denouement proves to be heart-thumpingly effective (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

A comic triumph (TIME OUT)

Descrizione del libro:

*An hilarious thriller about a holiday romance gone wrong.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0349106452
• ISBN 13: 9780349106458
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208