The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years - Couverture rigide

Turner, Frederick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151015090 ISBN 13 : 9780151015092

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Synopsis

A faded newspaperman downs a double Maker’s Mark and contemplates life as a “ham-and-egger,” a hack. Then one day he finds the scoop of a lifetime in a Chicago basement: diaries belonging to the infamous Judith Campbell Exner. Right, that Judy, the game girl who waltzed into the midst of America’s most powerful politicians, entertainers, and criminals as they conspired to rule America.

When Frank Sinatra flew Judy to Hawaii for a weekend of partying, she could hardly have imagined where it would lead her: straight to the White House and the waiting arms of Jack Kennedy. And then came the day that JFK and his brother Bobby asked her to carry a black bag to Chicago, where she was to hand it off to the boss of bosses, Sam Giancana. As our Narrator pieces the notebooks into a coherent story, he finds mob connections, rigged primaries, assassination plots, and trysts—and begins to see beyond the tabloid fare to a real woman, adrift and defenseless in a dangerous world where the fates of nations are at stake. As one by one the men Judy loved betrayed her and disappeared, and as the FBI pursued her into a living hell, her diary entries disintegrate along with the beautiful, tough, sweet woman the Narrator has come to know. Who was Exner, after all? Just a gangster’s moll? Or a bighearted woman who believed the sky-high promises of the New Frontier—and paid the price?

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Praise for REDEMPTION:
"The lush language and gorgeous sepia-tinted visuals of Frederick Turner's Redemption cast a deceptive glow over the decadence and corruption that come to light in this historical novel . . . Turner carries off the inevitable showdown with grim efficiency, but it's his historian's eye that makes this book special."--The New York Times Book Review

"New Orleans has seldom been stickier, ladies of the evening slinkier, or male violence held at a steadier simmer than in Turner's humid crime drama . . . This dark, potent novel should be savored slowly, like a stiff Sazerac."--Entertainment Weekly
"Storyville, New Orleans' storied red-light district, has its alluring, legendary facade ripped away in this brilliant, searing expose. Turner's second (after the 2003 novel 1929) has a sustained somber eloquence sure to win acclaim and perhaps a well-deserved prize." -- Kirkus (starred review)
PRAISE FOR 1929

"Frederick Turner's 1929 has many moving and exciting episodes and wonderful period detail." -- Peter Matthiessen

"[B]y turns intoxicating, and ineffably sad, like the 'hot' music it is designed to evoke."--The New Yorker

"Those with the luck to have known Frederick Turner's earlier work--it's startling range of subject, mastery of perspective and detail, sharp and beautiful prose--may not be altogether surprised by his new novel and its vivid evocation of the Jazz Age . . . For those who have yet to emcounter Turner's gifts, this is a fine place to start." -- W.S. Merwin

Présentation de l'éditeur

A faded newspaperman downs a double Maker’s Mark and contemplates life as a “ham-and-egger,” a hack. Then one day he finds the scoop of a lifetime in a Chicago basement: diaries belonging to the infamous Judith Campbell Exner. Right, that Judy, the game girl who waltzed into the midst of America’s most powerful politicians, entertainers, and criminals as they conspired to rule America.

When Frank Sinatra flew Judy to Hawaii for a weekend of partying, she could hardly have imagined where it would lead her: straight to the White House and the waiting arms of Jack Kennedy. And then came the day that JFK and his brother Bobby asked her to carry a black bag to Chicago, where she was to hand it off to the boss of bosses, Sam Giancana. As our Narrator pieces the notebooks into a coherent story, he finds mob connections, rigged primaries, assassination plots, and trysts—and begins to see beyond the tabloid fare to a real woman, adrift and defenseless in a dangerous world where the fates of nations are at stake. As one by one the men Judy loved betrayed her and disappeared, and as the FBI pursued her into a living hell, her diary entries disintegrate along with the beautiful, tough, sweet woman the Narrator has come to know. Who was Exner, after all? Just a gangster’s moll? Or a bighearted woman who believed the sky-high promises of the New Frontier—and paid the price?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151015090
• ISBN 13: 9780151015092
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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