Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You: Stories: An Edgar Award Winner - Couverture souple

Drummond, Laurie Lynn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060561637 ISBN 13 : 9780060561635

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Drummond Laurie Lynn

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Tough, scary and riveting.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Unforgettable, beautifully written stories.” (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

“Strong and wise ...like the memory of a loved one passed, these stories linger long past their last breath.” (San Diego Union-Tribune)

“Drummond’s clear voice shuns distracting, overtly literary first-book flourishes. The author’s mapping of complex terrain ...keeps the pages turning.” (Time Out New York)

“Stories that [put Drummond’s] insider’s knowledge to work, offering fresh insights into the lives of police officers and women.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

“This astonishing debut collection makes it clear that Drummond was a writer long before she was a police officer.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“Combining Southern grace and urban brutality ...Drummond continually surprises with her profiles in courage.” (Publishers Weekly)

“A superb debut ...marvelous command of fear and sensuous involvement. Prose that weighs like a gun in your palm.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred))

“Drummond brings a major new talent to the crime fiction scene.” (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

“For readers who like their crime fiction raw and flavored by moral dilemmas, these stories are intriguingly fresh.” (New York Daily News)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This riveting debut collection of short fiction about women cops comes from the author's real–life experience as a Baton Rouge police officer. In an entirely fresh and unique voice, these stories reveal the humanity, compassion, humour, tragedy and redemption hidden behind the "blue wall."

Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You centres on the lives of five female police officers. Each woman's story–like each call in a police officer's day–varies in its unique drama, but all the tales illuminate the tenuous line between life and death, violence and control, despair and salvation. Because the stories come from the author's own experience, they open a curtain on the truth behind the job–how officers are trained to deal with the smell of death, how violence clings to a crime scene long after the crime is committed, how the police determine when to engage in or diffuse violence, why some people make it from the academy to the force and some don't, and all the friendships, romances, and dramas that happen along the way. It illuminates not only how officers feel while they are in uniform, holding their guns, but also what they feel after they go home and put those guns aside.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060561637
• ISBN 13: 9780060561635
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272