- Taschenbuch: 176 Seiten
- Verlag: Palgrave; Auflage: First. (Januar 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312254636
- ISBN-13: 978-0312254636
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,5 x 15,6 x 1,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 963.070 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In an era when ersatz noir has become fashionable, the real thing often goes unappreciated. Take Domenic Stansberry, whose 1987 novel The Spoiler, a superb baseball mystery, languishes out of print, its vision of burned-out lives too raw to be marketable. Now Stansberry has done it again with this gut-wrenching tale of doomed lovers in San Francisco's North Beach. Noir heroes are always doomed: the wrong guy meeting the wrong girl in the wrong world. So it is for failed lawyer NiccoloJones, who loves his brother's wife and lets that love fester as he watches his Italian neighborhood give way to Chinese immigrants, tourists, and yuppies. Then Nick's brother is murdered, and he finds himself investigating a neighborhood scandal that goes back to Mussolini. Like a James M. Cain hero, Nick knows inevitability when he smells it, and he follows the trail like a bloodhound. Stansberry understands the way neighborhoods and families can imprison as they nurture, and he tells Nick's story in the hard-edged prose it demands. Straight noir, no chaser. Bill Ott
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Thirty years after his salad days in San Francisco's North Beach, Niccol¢ Abruzzi Jones doesn't feel he can join the elders lamenting the breakup of the old Italian neighborhood, especially since he's too busy scrabbling to make a living running errands for one of the small-time Chinese gangsters who've taken over. But Nick's own life is as desolate as his old neighborhood. He still burns with the love he felt for years for his brother Joe's first wife Marie, and with the guilty knowledge that Joe suspected Nick's affair with Marie began before Joe's divorce. Now Joe is dead, shot down on a dull street corner, and Marie is suddenly back in Joe's life. Homicide detective Leanora Chinn thinks Joe, a carpenter with a drug-addled past, was killed when a buy went sour, but Nick, who'd just heard Joe boast about the improbable real-estate deal he was going to swing in the heady company of patrician local attorney Micaeli Romano, figures he'd better look more closely into the case than Lt. Chinn is likely to do. What he finds will take him back to the 1953 assassination of Mussolini's favorite general, back to his family's most shameful secrets, back to the heart of his love and betrayal of Joe. It will also, as Stansberry (The Spoiler, 1987, etc.) emphasizes from the beginning, make him sorry he ever took a closer look. A murky, moody slice of noir, as sad and predictable as the decline of all the North Beaches everywhere. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Format:Taschenbuch
Old time California noir in North Beach. The kind of crime novel that makes me wish their were more crime novels like this. Stansberry captures the gritty undercurrent of grime and sadness in a a dead end romance that reminds me of John Fante and Leonard Gardner in the quality of its prose. Like them, he is a writer out-of-the-mainstream whose characters resonate with the California dream knocked punchy. It's got tension,too. A short book, an afternoon's read, cinematic and sparse. One of my favorites.
Format:Taschenbuch
This book was contrived and a total waste of time, money and effort. How this book won the Edghar Award (which is why I purchased it) beats me. I learned nothing from this book other than to suspect how book award selectees are chosen.
Format:Taschenbuch
If this is not a thriller, I don't know what is. The story reminds me of Chinatown, or Body Heat, only set in San Francisco. Intense story, lyric prose, great ending. Stansberry really captures the violent and romance of the old Italian neighborhoods.
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I loved it!
This little book really knocked me backed on my heels. Domenic Stansberry is easily one of the best noir writers working today. It reminded me of James Cain at his peak. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Februar 2000 von Susan D'Angelo
Superb
this book is solid noir with a spectacular San Francisco feel to it. Stansberry writes crisply with a dark nostalgia all his own. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Don't waste your time reading this one!
I purchased this because it won an award. So much for awards...This novel fits into no recognized genre. It is NOT a thriller! The only mystery is why it received an award. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Januar 2000 von Gerald Lipsky
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