The Big Nowhere

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<p><b>'The king of macho noir' </b><i>GUARDIAN</i><br><b>'The American Dostoevsky'</b> JOYCE CAROL OATES<br><b>'One of the great American writers of our time' </b><i>LOS ANGELES TIMES<br><b>'</b></i><b>Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' </b>STEPHEN KING<br><b>'One of the most original and daring writers alive' </b><i>INDEPENDENT</i><br><br>A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death.<br><br>Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. The second of the LA Quartet, the epigraph for <i>The Big Nowhere</i> is a passage from a novel; "It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness."</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099537878

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

200 x 131 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Verlag / Hersteller

Cornerstone