Shella - Rilegato

Vachss, Andrew H.

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ISBN 10: 0679424164 ISBN 13: 9780679424161

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1993

Riassunto

A bitter and cynical killer for hire, just out of jail after serving time for manslaughter, journeys back into a world of deviance, hatred, and ruthless amorality as he searches for Shella, a strip-dancer who had been the only one to touch his heart. 35,000 first printing.

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Recensione

"A noir archetype as bare as unfinished furniture. The plot...has been sanded down into a taut monofilament... The prose in Shella is boiled to the bone." --Village Voice

"Vachss tells his story in an understated shorthand.... He seems bottomlessly knowledgeable...about the depth and variety of human twistedness." --The New York Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore

Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include Flood (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, Strega (1987), Choice of Evil (1999), and Dead and Gone (2000). His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and The Observer, and he is a contributor to ABA Journal, Journal of Psychohistory, New England Law Review, The New York Times, and Parade.

Vachss has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and a professional organizer. He was the director of an urban migrants re-entry center in Chicago and another for ex-cons in Boston. After managing a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders, he published his first book, a textbook, about the experience. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria.

For ten years, Vachss’ law practice combined criminal defense with child protection, until, with the success of his novels, it segued exclusively into the latter, which is his passion. Vachss calls the child protective movement “a war,” and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679424164
• ISBN 13: 9780679424161
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida