Windfall - Rilegato

Magnuson, James

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ISBN 10: 0375502106 ISBN 13: 9780375502101

Casa editrice: Villard Books, 1999

Riassunto

While searching for the missing family cat, academic Ben Lindberg stumbles upon some hidden coolers containing a fortune in dirty money that he takes and uses to enhance his family's life, until dangerous strangers arrive in town to acquire their missing millions. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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Recensione:

"Psychologically acute . . .Magnuson's first novel in a decade is well worth the wait."  

--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Windfall does to the reader what found money does to its hero: It grabs hold and doesn't let go.  Magnuson leads us expertly through the minefields of betrayal, the nature of success, the lure of materialism.  It's what would happen if Alfred Hitchcock teamed up with Henry David Thoreau.  But at its core I>Windfall/I> is a fierce and taut thriller about the biggest crimes of all--the crimes of the heart."

--William Broyles, author of Brothers in Arms, former editor in chief of Newsweek, and founding editor of Texas Monthly

"A hugely entertaining novel.  No writer working today is better than James Magnuson at charting the humiliations of middle-class life, the dilemma of the good man who's maybe not quite good enough.  He belongs in a line extending from Graham Greene to Robert Stone--writers who know how to pose urgent moral questions within the demands of the thriller."

--Anthony Giardina, author of The Country of Marriage

L'autore:

James Magnuson was born in 1941 and grew up in a series of small towns in Wisconsin and North Dakota.  After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he made a living as a playwright in New York City, directing street theater in Harlem and producing his own plays in some of the most obscure theaters in the city.  In 1970, Magnuson was awarded a Hodder Fellowship and for the next four years, he wrote and directed eight new plays at Princeton University.  At age thirty two, Magnuson published his debut novel, Without Barbarians.  After publishing four more novels (The Rundown, Orphan Train, Open Season, and Money Mountain), receiving an NEA grant for fiction, and even having a few of his books optioned to the movies, Magnuson found himself with his back against the wall - b

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• Editore: Villard Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375502106
• ISBN 13: 9780375502101
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 291