The Night Inspector - Rilegato

Busch, Frederick

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ISBN 10: 0609602357 ISBN 13: 9780609602355

Casa editrice: Harmony Books, 1999

Riassunto

When William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, becomes involved with a Creole prostitute in 1867 New York City, he discovers the continuing underground trade in black people, a case that embroils him with Boston newpaperman Samuel Mordechai and a deputy customs inspector named Herman Melville. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

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Recensione:

"Frederick Busch is a superb writer, a skilled artist and poet in every line he writes. Girls is a splendid accomplishment. I could not stop reading this book. Busch writes with a constrained power that is the mark of a master. . . . This is all the stuff of a major writer, one who I believe has created a crime novel that will rank with the best in American literature. This man's gift and skill are enormous."        
--James Lee Burke

"When a book is this successful, it's impossible to detect any sign of artistic struggle. The narrative seems to unfold with a miraculous and thrilling ease. The highest compliment a reader can pay a literary thriller or any novel, for that matter, is to claim that the book is nearly as intricate and mysterious as life itself, that the reader has lived in the book as if it were a particularly lifelike dream, and cared about its characters as if they were real. All these claims are true about Girls."        
--Washington Post Book World

"Fierce, wise, gripping and true, Girls marks the continuing evolution of a first-rate American storyteller."        
--Scott Spencer, New York Times Book Review

"Girls is about as close to perfect as a novel gets. Its prose is clean and strong but never advertises its own quiet brilliance, its characters are sharply defined and irresistible, and its plot is suspenseful enough to keep you up until dawn. Girls is an achievement, powerful and true."        
--Anthony Brandt, Men's Journal

L'autore:

Frederick Busch is the Edgar Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harmony Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0609602357
• ISBN 13: 9780609602355
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 278