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A Pimp's Notes - Couverture rigide

Faletti, Giorgio

 
9780374231408: A Pimp's Notes
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ISBN 10 : 0374231400 ISBN 13 : 9780374231408
Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Giorgio Faletti's first thriller, "I Kill", took Europe by storm, selling over five million copies. The "Corriere della Sera", Italy's leading newspaper, crowned him "the greatest Italian writer." In 2010, with the explosive publication of "A Pimp's Notes", Faletti won international celebrity as a writer of world-class, tightly wound, psychologically nuanced thrillers. It's 1978. Italy has just been shocked by the kidnapping of the politician Aldo Moro by the left-leaning terrorist group the Red Brigades. In Milan, the upper class continues to amuse itself in luxury restaurants, underground clubs, and cabarets. This is Bravo's milieu. Enigmatic and cynical, Bravo makes his living catering to the tastes, fantasies, and fetishes of the wealthy and depraved. When the mysterious Carla enters his life, what begins as a clandestine romance quickly becomes a nightmare that will transform Bravo into a man wanted by the police, by organized crime, and even by the Red Brigades. As the web around him tightens, Bravo will be forced to confront the violence of the times in which he lives as well as his own connections to the political and criminal networks that control contemporary Italy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Giorgio Faletti's first thriller, "I Kill", took Europe by storm, selling over five million copies. The "Corriere della Sera", Italy's leading newspaper, crowned him "the greatest Italian writer." In 2010, with the explosive publication of "A Pimp's Notes", Faletti won international celebrity as a writer of world-class, tightly wound, psychologically nuanced thrillers. It's 1978. Italy has just been shocked by the kidnapping of the politician Aldo Moro by the left-leaning terrorist group the Red Brigades. In Milan, the upper class continues to amuse itself in luxury restaurants, underground clubs, and cabarets. This is Bravo's milieu. Enigmatic and cynical, Bravo makes his living catering to the tastes, fantasies, and fetishes of the wealthy and depraved. When the mysterious Carla enters his life, what begins as a clandestine romance quickly becomes a nightmare that will transform Bravo into a man wanted by the police, by organized crime, and even by the Red Brigades. As the web around him tightens, Bravo will be forced to confront the violence of the times in which he lives as well as his own connections to the political and criminal networks that control contemporary Italy.

Revue de presse

Praise for "A Pimp"'"s Notes" "["A Pimp's Notes"] has the power of a thriller, the efficacy of an atmospheric portrait, the poignant seduction of a noir. And it draws its force . . . from the fact that it recounts people, places, atmospheres that the author knows well, as they are part of his own past." --Gloria Satta, "Il Messaggero"

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Éditeur
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374231400
ISBN 13 
9780374231408
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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