- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Da Capo Press Inc (4. April 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1568581610
- ISBN-13: 978-1568581613
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,7 x 13,1 x 1,7 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 520.785 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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With his debut novel, Cold Caller, Jason Starr emerged on the mystery scene as heir to the bleakly cynical Jim Thompson (The Grifters) and James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice). His follow-up effort, Nothing Personal, confirms Starr's position at the cutting edge of the revival of classic American noir, tracing in sharp relief lives of extinguished opportunity and of petty troubles that accumulate, somehow, into major crimes.
Thus it is that hapless Joey DePino, saddled with an incurable gambler's optimism--but even worse gambler's luck--finds himself threatened with the deadly wrath of irate and unpaid bookies. What to do? Drift into an inept plan to kidnap Jessica Sussman, that's what. Joey's wife Maureen and Jessica's mother Leslie were childhood friends, and Joey has endured enough anemic evenings at the Sussman's Upper East Side apartment in New York to feel entitled to a little ransom retribution. Too bad for him that David Sussman, Jessica's father, is currently trying to end an affair with a psychopathic coworker. Hell hath no fury, as everybody knows, and the result is a tangled mess of motive, mistaken identity, and murder. The lives of the Sussmans and the DePinos--so different on their (respectively) gilt-edged and tattered surfaces--form parallel strands intertwining and accelerating toward a dark nadir.
As a genre, noir is an acquired taste: be warned that Starr tends to forsake character development and verisimilitude for an irony outlined in exceedingly broad strokes. You may find yourself getting heartily sick of both the Sussmans and the DePinos--but take comfort in the fact that Starr himself has an equally low opinion of his characters, and is only too ready to offer them up, in the finale, as grist for a bitingly sharp dinner-party mill. --Kelly Flynn
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In debt to two bookies and a loan shark, compulsive gambler Joey DePino hatches a desperate plan to kidnap the young daughter of David and Leslie Sussman, a wealthy Upper East Side couple who are friends with Joey's wife. Enlisting a brain-damaged childhood friend as his accomplice, Joey sets his ill-conceived plan into motion. Meanwhile, David Sussman has serious problems of his own. His Asian mistress refuses to accept the fact that their affair is over and begins stalking David's wife. Joey and David, worlds apart in occupation and economic status, begin to commit similar and equally heinous crimes including blackmail and murder. In the gruesomely funny denouement, the DePinos and Sussmans sit down to dinner together. Joey is oblivious to the wreckage of both families: his wife is finally pregnant, by another man, and Leslie's eating disorder is in full bulimic mode. Starr just never lets up as he twists the plot in ever more sinister directions, and his deadpan tone is a perfect match for his material. Joanne Wilkinson
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I can think of a lot of adjectives to describe Jason Starr's latest novel like: dark; disturbing; exciting; funny; crafty; thoughtful; and, depressing. My top two, however, are gripping and complex. It's gripping because you have, at most, 3 pages to relax, and then, if you don't want to ignore more important things than reading this book, you must be clinically obsessive-compulsive. It is complex because, once again Starr creates accurate portrayals of people we know and must both sympathize with as well as detest by the end of the story.
Starr's ability to peel away the superficial layers of sanity, sobriety and humanity that his protagonists hide behind, is disarming and terrifying. By the end of the story almost every character is both a predator and victim. The story is dark, cold, exciting and tense, but with enough "justice" such that you should be able to face your friends and neighbors again with a manageable amount of contempt.
If you like Brooklyn and New York settings you will probably love their portrayals here. Starr is able to accurately capture the ambience of two distinct worlds that lay side by side and constantly grind and bump with tension. Starr knows New York and presents it in a way that is inciteful but not overbearing.
Starr's story is always well plotted with an exceptional interweaving of two worlds that ultimately collide. At times, I was repulsed, scared, angry and excited by this unpredictable story.
As with his previous novel, Starr blends much of societies culturally chic obsessions and pathos with humor. He also seems to be able to accurately portray, even with some sympathy, the psychological traumas of chosen and popular lifestyles.
So...do you like noir? Do you like well written suspense? Do like dark, dark humor and enjoy twisted justice? If you can answer yes to any one of these questions, you'll love this book!
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Starr creates another nasty noir thriller!
15. April 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
I can think of a lot of adjectives to describe Jason Starr's latest novel like: dark; disturbing; exciting; funny; crafty; thoughtful; and, depressing. My top two, however, are gripping and complex. It's gripping because you have, at most, 3 pages to relax, and then, if you don't want to ignore more important things than reading this book, you must be clinically obsessive-compulsive. It is complex because, once again Starr creates accurate portrayals of people we know and must both sympathize with as well as detest by the end of the story.
Starr's ability to peel away the superficial layers of sanity, sobriety and humanity that his protagonists hide behind, is disarming and terrifying. By the end of the story almost every character is both a predator and victim. The story is dark, cold, exciting and tense, but with enough "justice" such that you should be able to face your friends and neighbors again with a manageable amount of contempt.
If you like Brooklyn and New York settings you will probably love their portrayals here. Starr is able to accurately capture the ambience of two distinct worlds that lay side by side and constantly grind and bump with tension. Starr knows New York and presents it in a way that is inciteful but not overbearing.
Starr's story is always well plotted with an exceptional interweaving of two worlds that ultimately collide. At times, I was repulsed, scared, angry and excited by this unpredictable story.
As with his previous novel, Starr blends much of societies culturally chic obsessions and pathos with humor. He also seems to be able to accurately portray, even with some sympathy, the psychological traumas of chosen and popular lifestyles.
So...do you like noir? Do you like well written suspense? Do like dark, dark humor and enjoy twisted justice? If you can answer yes to any one of these questions, you'll love this book!
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Noir at its best
2. September 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
At thirty-five years old, Joey DePino worries about what the bookies and loan shark will do to him. However, Joey is more concerned about how his wife Maureen will react if she learns about his gambling debts. Frankie the bookie has already cut off Joey's credit and two thugs employed by Carlos the loan shark has cost him two stitches and bruised ribs. Joey also lost his job for lunching too long at OTB, but feels one more bet, perhaps the Pacers against the Magic will make things right.
Ad executive David Sussman was strutting just a week ago about his affair with employee Amy Lee. Now he panics that the obsessed Oriental will destroy his life. She threatens to call his wife if David fails to marry her and who knows what she will do to his daughter. David wonders how he will end his relationship with the troubled Amy. Maureen and Leslie have been friends since school, but soon their lives will intertwine through the actions of their spouses in a way neither could have predicted.
NOTHING PERSONAL is a dark urban noir that takes the audience into an amoral world where beating the rap is more important than accountability for one's activities. On the surface Joey and David seem like two radically different personalities, but they react to their crisis in similar ways, mostly not wanting it to reach their wives. The characters are fully drawn so that the audience understands the two couples even Amy's fatal attraction. Jason Starr lives up to his surname with this taut thriller that climaxes with an intriguing unexpected twist.
Harriet Klausner
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I loved this book and went and read all other books by Jason
24. März 2002
Format:Taschenbuch
This book is an edge of your seat tension building plot that held my interest grippingly. I read it in one night and then the next day went and bought every other book written by Jason Starr. They are all brilliant. I love the New York setting in the dead end type jobs with the tension between the boss and main character. The marital tension. So well-written and clever. I haven't read a similar book and it was joy to read something different and intriguing.
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