Crooked Little Vein: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Ellis, Warren

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060723939 ISBN 13 : 9780060723934

Editeur : William Morrow, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Ellis Warren

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Burned-out private detective and self-styled shit magnet Michael McGill needed a wake-up call to jump-start his dead career. What he got was a virtual cattle prod to the crotch, in the form of an impossible assignment delivered directly from the president's heroin-addict chief of staff. It seems the Constitution of the United States has some skeletons in its closet: the Founding Fathers doubted that the document would be able to stave off human nature indefinitely, so they devised a backup Constitution to deploy at the first sign of crisis. In the government's eyes, that time is now, as America is overgrown with perverts who spend more time surfing the Web for fetish porn than they do reading a newspaper. They want to use this "Secret Constitution" to drive the country back to a time when civility, God, and mom's homemade apple pie were all that mattered.

The only problem is, no one can seem to find it . . .

So who better to track it down than a private dick who's so down-and-out that he's coming up the other side, a shamus whose only skill is stumbling into every depraved situation imaginable?

With no lead to speak of, and no knowledge of the underground world in which the Constitution has traveled, McGill embarks on a cross-country odyssey of America's darkest, dankest underbelly. Along the way, his white-bread sensibilities are treated to a smorgasbord of depravity that runs the gamut of human imagination. The filth mounts; it is clear that this isn't the kind of life, liberty, or happiness that Thomas Jefferson thought Americans would enjoy in the twenty-first century.

But what McGill learns as he closes in on the real Constitution is that freedom takes many forms, the most important of which may be the fight against the "good old days." Like Vonnegut, Orwell, and Huxley before him, Warren Ellis deftly exposes the hypocrisy of the "moral majority" by giving us a glimpse at the monstrous outcome that their overzealous policies would achieve.

Revue de presse :

“A heart-shredding work of scatological brilliance that gleefully annihilates private-eye tropes and pole-vaults over taste lines.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“[A] brilliantly nasty and weird detective novel.” (Entertainment Weekly, EW 100 Pick)

“[C]ompletely compulsive, impossible to put down.” (Globe and Mail (Toronto))

“CROOKED LITTLE VEIN...is a book readers will not soon forget.” (Chicago Tribune)

“Not for the faint of heart...surprisingly funny (with shades of Lamb author Christopher Moore).” (Entertainment Weekly)

“[M]ay be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the 21st century.” (Lansing State Journal)

“A relentlessly fascinating page-turner...brilliantly and effervescently subversive.” (The Gazette (Montreal))

“Ellis is a formidable talent whose wit and insight fit perfectly into the crime genre.” (Los Angeles Times)

“[A] much-needed kick in the butt for a genre that may be more stagnant than its enthusiasts realize.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

“Packed with exciting, hilarious, and disturbing events...outrageously entertaining.” (Winnipeg Free Press)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060723939
• ISBN 13: 9780060723934
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288