Clea's Moon - Brossura

Wright, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0752852906 ISBN 13: 9780752852904

Casa editrice: Orion, 2003

Riassunto

Once he was Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of B-movie westerns. Now, after two years in prison, John Ray Horn lives on the margins of post-World War II Los Angeles. His wife has left him, and, blacklisted by the studios, he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. Then he is shaken out of his cynicism and self-pity: an old friend, Scotty, contacts Horn to tell him about some obscene photos found in his dead father's possession - one, several years old, is of Clea, who was Horn's stepdaughter before his divorce. Within days, Scotty is dead, and Clea has run away. Horn is convinced these developments are linked, and sets off urgently to find Clea.

His search takes him from neon-lit ocean-front piers to wooded canyons, from rich homes in the Hollywood Hills to Central Avenue, the Harlem of LA, a street rich in jazz and corruption. The backdrop is Los Angeles in the late 1940s, an adolescent city growing up fast, a city swallowing up its orchards and pastures, a city of equal parts sun and shadow.

But will the on-screen tough-guy hero be able to sustain his role off-screen?

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Evocative post-World War II debut crime novel set in LA, starring ex-movie-star and now debt-collector John Ray Horn, and his partner Joseph Mad Crow.

L'autore:

Edward Wright grew up in Arkansas and was a naval officer and a newspaperman before discovering the greater satisfaction of writing fiction. Although transplanted to California, he remained partial to barbecue and bluegrass music. He also had an affinity for film noir. Among his regrets was never having met Will Shakespeare, Robert E. Lee, or Hank Williams. Edward was awarded the coveted CWA Ellis Peters Memorial Dagger for his novel RED SKY LAMENT in October 2006. He died in 2015.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0752852906
• ISBN 13: 9780752852904
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288