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Sleeping Beauty - Couverture souple

Livre 17 sur 18: Lew Archer Series

Macdonald, Ross

 
9780375708664: Sleeping Beauty
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0375708669 ISBN 13 : 9780375708664
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ross Macdonald died in 1983.

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0375708669
ISBN 13 
9780375708664
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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