Green Girls - Brossura

Kimball, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0747261695 ISBN 13: 9780747261698

Casa editrice: Headline, 2002

Riassunto

Jacob Winter is a man of principle, devoted to his wife and son. But his principles are put to the test when he discovers that his wife has been having an affair with another man - with violent results - and he finds himself bailed out of jail by a mysterious woman from his past. For a man who studiously avoids sensationalism, getting caught up with Alix Callahan, fiery lesbian ethnobotanist, and her bisexual partner, a sultry Americanized rainforest girl, is a shock to the system. And when he enters Green Girls, their tropical flower shop on the coast of Maine - complete with hallucinogenic herbs and a mini-jungle full of deadly poison-arrow frogs - Jacob finds himself tumbling headlong into a heady world of strangeness he never could have imagined.

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Recensione:

MOUTH TO MOUTH:
'A powerfully compelling read from the author of the international topseller, Undone' Publishers News

"The best suspense stories are the ones that creep up on you, breathe on your neck and jump back into the shadows when you turn around. Michael Kimball plays that game with unnerving skill in Mouth to Mouth, a psychological thriller with the scariest kind of villain - a handsome, helpful, utterly winsome sociopath with an evil agenda that his victims fail to see until it's too late . . . Although the steel-trap plot is built for ultimate carnage, Kimball primes the mechanism with scenes of quiet beauty and subtle tension that seduce characters and readers alike on the slow, scenic route to a state of high anxiety." New York Times

'This is an excellent novel. MOUTH TO MOUTH will please readers across a number of genres, but mostly it will please fans of quality writing' Crime Time

'MOUTH TO MOUTH is a stunning experience; a stylish novel that creates its own dark intensity weaving disturbing claustrophobic patterns within a framework of eternal truths...The language is lyrical and resonant echoing the ethereal atmosphere and the use of imagery is subtle and pervasive often leaving the reader breathless...[it] rocks along to a succession of climaxes, rising to a crescendo. Memories are evoked of AMERICAN GOTHIC, SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL and NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and, in fact MOUTH TO MOUTH would make a great film.' Shots in the Dark

'A deft, highly charged erotic psychological thriller bristling with secrets and lies... Kimball offers one engrossing scene after another... The tough, pull-no-punches narrative is loaded with spellbinding action... Kimball hits the mark with this high-wire revenger's tragedy: a pitilessly intelligent examination of a family tortured by mistakes, misunderstandings, and malicious vengeance from the invigorating opening to the catastrophic finale' Kirkus Reviews

'In his second thriller, Kimball seduces the reader... He has created characters on which we want Neal to wreak his brand of justice, then makes us painfully aware of the finality and horror of that justice... The story and characters are compelling and believable' Library Journal

'[MOUTH TO MOUTH] is a dark ... story with a serpentine plot, intriguing but thoroughly revolting characters, and a stunning finale. Highly recommended, but not as bedtime reading' Booklist

'Suspenseful psychological thriller' Irish News (Belfast)

'MOUTH TO MOUTH sustains the trenchant storytelling ability Kimbal displayed in UNDONE' The Times

'This is an excellent novel... MOUTH TO MOUTH will please readers across a number of genres, but mostly it will please fans of quality writing' Crime Time

Descrizione del libro:

Bestseller Michael Kimball's masterpiece - an hallucinogenic tale of sex, murder and madness. 'The sort of book you think about during the day and can't wait to settle back into at night. It's sly, sexy, suspenseful and very, very moving' Stephen King

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• Editore: Headline
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0747261695
• ISBN 13: 9780747261698
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416