City of Thieves - Rilegato

Benioff, David

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ISBN 10: 0670018708 ISBN 13: 9780670018703

Casa editrice: Viking Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Documenting his reluctant grandparents' experiences during the infamous siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he endeavored to secure their pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.

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Recensione:

“The novel tells a refreshingly traditional tale, driven by an often ingenious plot.... He shifts tone with perfect control—no recent novel I’ve read travels so quickly and surely between registers, from humor to devastation....”
—New York Times Book Review

“City of Thieves is a coming-of-age story brilliantly amplified by its worn-torn backdrop. Benioff’s finest achievement in City of Thieves has been to banish all possible pretensions from his novel, which never wears its research on its sleeve, and to deliver a rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humor, savagery, and pathos squarely together on the same page.”
—Washington Post

“Benioff has produced a funny, sad, and thrilling novel.”
—Entertainment Weekly, A-

“This spellbinding story perfectly blends tragedy and comedy.”
-USA Today

“Written with a skeptical eye but enormous tenderness.... Benioff blends humor and horror expertly.”
-San Francisco Chronicle

“City of Thieves is flat-out great. Benioff’s screen writing chops are in full force here—the plot careens along with cinematic verve—but that’s expected. The surprise is Benioff’s understated wisdom and tenderness.”
- Men’s Journal

L'autore:

David Benioff was born and raised in New York City. He adapted his first novel, The 25th Hour, into the feature film directed by Spike Lee. With many other screenplays to his credit, he is also the writer of the films, "Brothers" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Stories from his critically acclaimed collection When the Nines Roll Over appeared in Best New American Voices and The Best Nonrequired American Reading. His latest novel is City of Thieves. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter where he is a co-creator and writer for the HBO hit series "Game of Thrones."

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• Editore: Viking Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0670018708
• ISBN 13: 9780670018703
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 258