Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence: A Novel of Sex & Violence - Rilegato

Emerson, Jill

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ISBN 10: 0857682873 ISBN 13: 9780857682871

Casa editrice: Hardcase Crime, 2012

Riassunto

SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR... 

...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it.

And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her. She starts writing down names. And now she's a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list...

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Recensione:

"[Getting Off] boasts Block's legendary craftsmanship, sly humor, and virtuoso plotting ... you'll be rooting for this thoroughly beguiling serial killer on a mission. A pro's pro, Block never wastes a word, never misplaces a plot element." --Booklist

"Getting Off covers the same unabashedly tawdry territory as Emerson's older oeuvre, with a twist worthy of Jim Thompson...With the same skill he's shown in his more mainstream work, Block slowly ratchets up the intensity and violence." --The AV Club

"Block has, once again, created a tale to excite and absorb even the most jaded reader of crime fiction." --Eclipse Magazine

"Block expertly created one of the smartest, self-possessed women serial killers in crime noir literary history with Kit Tolliver in Getting Off." --Shockya

"It managed to surprised me and I love the way things wrapped up. I've come across a lot of books that are great right up to the last chapter, then they fizzle. This delivered a very interesting ending." --Alive on the Shelves

"A terribly fun, pulpy adventure." --Dread Central

"It takes a writer of Mr. Block's caliber to pull of a book like Getting Off without it being either sordid or clunky. This is a manipulative and horrifyingly insightful book." --Pornokitsch

"Subtitled, completely truthfully, A Novel Of Sex & Violence, it is a homage to the pulpiest of pulp fictions." --The Scotsman

"It takes a writer of Mr. Block's caliber to pull of a book like Getting Off without it being either sordid or clunky. This is a manipulative and horrifyingly insightful book." --Pornokitsch

L'autore:

Lawrence Block is one of the most acclaimed and highly decorated living mystery writers, having received multiple Edgar, Shamus and Maltese Falcon Awards, as well as lifetime achievement awards in the US, UK, and France.

He was named a "Grand Master" by the Mystery Writers of America, the organization's highest honor. In the 1960s and 70s he wrote seven novels under the pen name "Jill Emerson," a pseudonym he is reviving for the first time in nearly 40 years for Getting Off.

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• Editore: Hardcase Crime
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857682873
• ISBN 13: 9780857682871
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 335