The Girl With A Clock For A Heart - Rilegato

Swanson, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0571301886 ISBN 13: 9780571301881

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2014

Riassunto

George Foss never thought he'd see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack's Tavern. When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman from Sweetgum, Florida. She and George became inseparable in their first fall semester, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had committed suicide over Christmas break. But, as he stood in the living room of the girl's grieving parents, he realized the girl in the photo on their mantelpiece - the one who had committed suicide - was not his girlfriend. Later, he discovered the true identity of the girl he had loved - and of the things she may have done to escape her past. Now, twenty years later, she's back, and she's telling George that he's the only one who can help her...In his electrifying debut, Peter Swanson evokes the spirit of Body Heat and Double Indemnity, in a thriller about love, loss and those memories we hold closest to our hearts. '...it was like I had a secret disease, or there was this clock inside of me, ticking like a heart, and at any moment an alarm would go off...'

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The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride and an absolute blast from start to finish. (DENNIS LEHANE)

As good as they come. A thrilling slice of contemporary noir with twists that you won't see coming. (MARK BILLINGHAM)

It's hard not to warm to this book - and very hard not to read it in one sitting. Swanson's writing is clean and measured, he throws in a ton of cliff-hangers, and he plays out his stolen identity concept - impossible in the age of Facebook, but how intriguing to remember how it wouldn't have been, 20 years ago - to thrilling, chilling effect. (Alison Flood, Thriller of the Month The Observer 2014-02-09)

Peter Swanson's debut The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a tight, convincing neo-noir whose most obvious analogues are cinematic - Double Indemnity, Body Heat and especially John Dahl's The Last Seduction. (John O'Connell Guardian 2014-02-15)

An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that dares you to turn the next page, but it's much more dangerous than that. It dares you to take a hard, long look at people from your past and ask yourself who's worth holding on to and who's worth letting go. (WILEY CASH, author of A Land More Kind Than Home (winner of the John Creasey debut Dagger, 2012))

The spirit of film noir is alive in this twisty tale of an ordinary man whose life is disrupted by his first love - an old-fashioned femme fatale who brings double crossings, financial scams and murder in her devastating wake. Clever and stylish. (Deirdre O'Brien Sunday Mirror 2014-02-02)

This neatly devised novel has an intriguing plot (Jessica Mann Literary Review 2014-02-01)

'The labyrinthine plot here has a grip of high-tensile steel.' (Barry Forshaw Financial Times 2013-02-01)

Blending intrigue and murder with a dash of Du Maurier, Swanson's debut novel takes us on a journey into the darker avenues of the American heartlands ... Swanson's novel has already been optioned for a film contract and, with a stylish narrative drawing comparisons with Hitchcock, it looks set to be as dynamic on the big screen as it is on the page. (Matthew Leopold The Lady)

Peter Swanson's THE GIRL WITH A CLOCK FOR A HEART is a gripping thriller that centres around the mysterious Liana. . . Stunning. (Image Magazine 2013-02-01)

Descrizione del libro:

The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson is a thriller about love, loss and those memories we hold closest to our hearts.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571301886
• ISBN 13: 9780571301881
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304