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Apply a sly feminist sensibility to postwar Hollywood noir, and you get a sordid saga in which women normally consigned to one-note victimhood turn out to be alarmingly complicit in their own downfalls. At least that's the tale Abbott delivers in this solid follow-up to 2005's lustrous Die a Little. Gil Hopkins--Hop to his friends, of which he has either a million or none, depending on your definition--is a studio fixer who helped cover up a song-and-dance team's involvement in the disappearance of an aspiring actress. When a gal pal shows up years later demanding help, Hop tries coming to grips with the conscience he never knew he had. A fevered, schizophrenic exploration of L.A.'s darkest corners follows as Hop opens cans of worms only to work desperately to keep any from wriggling free. It's Hollywood as meat grinder for Midwesterners too eager to swap snow for stardust, a place that can leave one "uncomfortable, disgusted, and vaguely aroused at the same time." And although it wallows in third-act melodrama, it's tasty stuff. Frank Sennett
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"Megan Abbott continues to be my absolute favorite new author, and her second novel, The Song Is You, is even better than her first -- super-sexy, superbly written, richly atmospheric, and with an ending you'll never see coming!"
-- Lisa Scottoline, author of Dirty Blonde
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The Song is a Hit
21. Januar 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Megan Abbott, in her terrfic second novel, The Song is You, proves a writer with a keen understanding of hard-boiled noir and a vivid sense of the time period of which she writes. The novel instantly transports the reader to the Hollywood scene of the mid-20th Century, in all its grandeur and grotesqueness. Readers interested in (the inner workings of) Hollywood will love the sense of realism that this novel creates.
Inevitably, the comparisons will be to the work of James Ellroy (Like The Black Dahlia, The Song is You offers a fictional extrapolation of a real-life unsolved mystery from mid-century L.A.). In many ways, though, Abbott's is a quieter and tighter novel, a more affecting reading experience. Abbott deserves kudos for foregoing the use of first-person narration by a male protagonist A)because it's been done to death in this genre, and B)because the third-person perspective simply works better here. As readers, we are able to get inside the protagonist's head and experience his doubts and dilemmas as he proceeds with his investigations (rather than having a first-person narrator telling us his story in retrospect). We are on closer terms with the whole character, and not just recipients of the voice of a narrator. This, of course, only heightens the impact of the novel's ending (which is as moving as it is surprising).
I recommend this book highly not just to fans of noir-tinged mysteries, but also to anyone who appreciates good writing. Like many of the characters and settings depicted here, the prose is wonderfully seductive. Some genre fiction is meant to be hastily consumed, and some is meant to be relished. The Song is You definitely falls into the latter category.
Inevitably, the comparisons will be to the work of James Ellroy (Like The Black Dahlia, The Song is You offers a fictional extrapolation of a real-life unsolved mystery from mid-century L.A.). In many ways, though, Abbott's is a quieter and tighter novel, a more affecting reading experience. Abbott deserves kudos for foregoing the use of first-person narration by a male protagonist A)because it's been done to death in this genre, and B)because the third-person perspective simply works better here. As readers, we are able to get inside the protagonist's head and experience his doubts and dilemmas as he proceeds with his investigations (rather than having a first-person narrator telling us his story in retrospect). We are on closer terms with the whole character, and not just recipients of the voice of a narrator. This, of course, only heightens the impact of the novel's ending (which is as moving as it is surprising).
I recommend this book highly not just to fans of noir-tinged mysteries, but also to anyone who appreciates good writing. Like many of the characters and settings depicted here, the prose is wonderfully seductive. Some genre fiction is meant to be hastily consumed, and some is meant to be relished. The Song is You definitely falls into the latter category.
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Your new favorite SONG
5. April 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Megan Abbott's THE SONG IS YOU may be the best throwback hard-boiled novel ever written. It's part Chandler, part Ellroy, yet all her own--a masterpiece of nostalgic longing and pulp nerve.
Abbott's fictional worlds are as glamorous and ugly as Rick's Café Américain--teeming with life, and darkness both foreign and familiar. They make you say "what the hell" and belly up to the bar, where an endless procession of compelling lowlifes and tarnished heroes file past you like a cortège, so close you can smell their breath as they whisper stories you'd swear were your own.
Her prose is bourbon straight-up; it makes your heart burn and your guts hurt, and as it goes to your head a crooked smile twists your mug and sticks. All you can do is nod, and mutter, "you're right, Megan, you've got us pegged--we're all suckers." But you hang around like a bad blind date. Why? Because somewhere in your aching marrow you know the French are right: melancholy is the sweetest emotion.
Abbott's fictional worlds are as glamorous and ugly as Rick's Café Américain--teeming with life, and darkness both foreign and familiar. They make you say "what the hell" and belly up to the bar, where an endless procession of compelling lowlifes and tarnished heroes file past you like a cortège, so close you can smell their breath as they whisper stories you'd swear were your own.
Her prose is bourbon straight-up; it makes your heart burn and your guts hurt, and as it goes to your head a crooked smile twists your mug and sticks. All you can do is nod, and mutter, "you're right, Megan, you've got us pegged--we're all suckers." But you hang around like a bad blind date. Why? Because somewhere in your aching marrow you know the French are right: melancholy is the sweetest emotion.
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Literary Noir
5. März 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Megan Abbott has made a solid fan of me. She's smart, she's talented and she knows how to do her homework. The dark underbelly of 50s Hollywood, replete with characters whose motivations run the gamut from simple survival to satisfying their grotesque and sometimes terrifying urges, is evoked effortlessly in prose the big boys of noir can't touch. The Song is You may be a noir fan's dream, but the writing is so lyrical and precise that this book will appeal to all readers of great fiction.
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