Plainclothes Naked - Couverture rigide

Stahl, Jerry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060185562 ISBN 13 : 9780060185565

Editeur : William Morrow, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Stahl Jerry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From legendary cult writer Jerry Stahl comes Plainclothes Naked, a breakout novel that jacks up crime fiction to new heights of twisted, sexy, mind-blowing brilliance.

With searing wit and devastating detail, Stahl -- whose work, Jim Carroll has written, "fills the gap in American literature left void since the death of the late, great Terry Southern " -- takes us deep into the minds of addicts and detectives, fetishists and killers. It's a vision of American misfits in a world of violent crime, official corruption, drug-addled scheming, and -- perhaps strangest of all -- genuine, up-from-the-toes true love.

In a wildly careening plot that can only be described as crack noir, two pipe-heads accidentally steal a photo of George W. Bush's presidential package with a happy face tattooed on it and decide to blackmail the Republican Party. Before the crack-crazed thieves can follow through, however, a gorgeous, whip-smart young nurse absconds with the goods. But Nurse Tina's got her own problems -- she's just offed her online "money swami" husband with a bowl of Drano-laced Lucky Charms. When Manny Rubert, a scarred ex-junkie turned codeine-popping detective, is called in to investigate the "foamer" hubby's untimely demise, love hits him like a wrench to the head. Soon Manny and Tina are making plans of their own for the presidential pic -- and for their future together. But the meddling police chiefs and motel room sex-change surgeons of the world just won't leave them alone. And then there are those killer crackheads, still out there and closing in...

At once a scathing tale of contemporary insanity and a no-holds-barred, tour de force thriller, Plainclothes Naked forges violence and comedy into a criminal love story as shocking as it is transcendent.

Revue de presse :

“Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard.” (James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places)

“Raw and devilishly raunchy.” (Vanity Fair)

“Brutally compelling...” (Publishers Weekly)

“Jerry Stahl’s writing will flip you--flip you for real.” (Benicio Del Toro)

“[A] pleasantly demented police procedural for the Tarantino set.” (Kirkus)

“Plainclothes Naked is a page-turner.” (MAXIM magazine)

“Bare-ass hilarious....A wonderfully sick comic masterpiece of the hard-boiled genre.” (Paper Magazine)

“...the new king of black humor....Plainclothes Naked [is] a hallucinogenic potboiler.” (The New York Post)

“[Stahl’s] brilliantly demented riffs beg to be read—or screamed—aloud.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Gripping and powerful.” (Mirabella)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060185562
• ISBN 13: 9780060185565
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336