The 25th Hour - Couverture souple

Benioff, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340822295 ISBN 13 : 9780340822296

Editeur : Hodder Paperbacks, 2002

Synopsis

The 25th Hour David Benioff's character-driven debut novel; a spellbinding portrait of three buddies confronting the consequences of their carefree youth on the streets of New York. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Acerbically captivating first novel...Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires. He gives this slim, engaging book a colorful range...Benioff delivers as full a surprise as the situation demands. But what makes his book enjoyable beyond his mere mechanics is the character study that develops as old friends get together and begin provoking one another' - NEW YORK TIMES

Acerbically captivating first novel . . . Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires (The New York Times)

As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city's possibilities and unsatisfied longings (The New Yorker)

'Part thriller, part hip New York novella . . . first class debut' - GQ (GQ)

'A stylish, beautifully written novel with a sharply drawn backdrop of New York . . . The book is filled with marvellous vignettes. The mixture of tenderness and jealousy among the friends, their fear and resentment remain in the memory' - Susanna Yager, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph)

David Benioff's headlong suspense novel is a deceptively simple chronicle of [Monty's] final day of freedom . . . Working in a novelistic form of "real time", Benioff shows a knack for critiquing his genre while revitalising its cliches . . . Instead of yielding mere irony, the author, in his first novel, achieves both pathos and excitement (Entertainment Weekly)

Brilliantly conceived, this gripping crime drama boasts dead-on dialogue, chiaroscuro portraits of New York's social strata and an inescapable crescendo of tension. Monty's solution to his agonising dilemmas will shock even hardened suspense lovers (Publishers Weekly)

original and tightly written - Liverpool Echo (Liverpool Echo)

THE 25TH HOUR is a wonderfully written first novel . . . [a] brilliant and disturbing story (Otto Penzler, amazon.com)

A stylish, beautifully written novel with a sharply drawn backdrop of New York . . . The book is filled with marvellous vignettes. The mixture of tenderness and jealousy among the friends, their fear and resentment remain in the memory (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph)

Biographie de l'auteur :

David Benioff was born and raised in New York City. An author and screenwriter, he adapted his first novel, The 25th Hour, into the screenplay for Spike Lee's popular feature film of the same name.

His historical fiction novel City of Thieves and short story collection When the Nines Rolled Over received critical acclaim. Stories from the collection have appeared in Best New American Voices and The Best Nonrequired American Reading.

He is the author of the screenplays for the films Troy, Stay, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Kite Runner as well as the creator of the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, based on the books from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.

David Benioff lives in Los Angeles and New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0340822295
• ISBN 13: 9780340822296
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288