Hardball - Couverture souple

Sara Paretsky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 045123099X ISBN 13 : 9780451230997

Editeur : Signet

Synopsis

Book by SARA PARETSKY

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Sara Paretsky is on top form . . . HARDBALL is a haunting novel, skilfully combining power politics and intensely personal events (Joan Smith, Sunday Times)

'HARDBALL is a standout . . . an ambitious novel, layered in the grit of recent American racial history' (National Public Radio, USA)

'V.I. Warshawski, one of fiction's best female sleuths' (Saga)

Within a racial melting pot, Paretsky hits her own personal best; HARDBALL takes the thinking woman's detective to a new level of excellence (Financial Times Weekend)

'The author's skill in tackling these topics [politics & feminism] in a subtle way is impressive, and the fact that she manages to couch it all in a breakneck-thriller plot is testament to her skill as a storyteller.' (Big Issue on HARDBALL)

Paretsky has evoked - and celebrated - the multiplicity of Chicago's neighbourhoods, its old and new immigrants and its tragic history of race relations; and these years of America's financial and political decadence seem to have rekindled her passion for social justice. (Times Literary Supplement)

HARDBALL is a big, chewy, old-fashioned yarn about a P.I. looking into a sprawling, decade-spanning web of police corruption. But when it's this entertaining, there's nothing wrong with that at all (Metro)

Another hard hitting thriller by a doughty crusader (Literary Review)

She is writing with the kind of passion for social justice that inspired Chandler and Hammett . . . a narrative as gripping as it is emotionally wrenching. (Joan Smith, The Sunday Times)

A strong, well-constructed novel, firmly founded in Chicago and its politics, past and present. Paretsky's plot combines racism, police corruption and family secrets - including Warshawski's - and the lost idealism of the 1960s provides a haunting backdrop. Some crime series grow stale over time, but there's no sign of fatigue here. This is partly because the recurring characters continue to develop and engage the reader, and partly because of the moral intelligence that informs the writing. (Spectator)

Présentation de l'éditeur

The long-awaited return of V.I. Warshawski

Chicago politics-past, present, and future-take center stage in New York Times bestselling author Sara Peretsky's complex and compelling new V.I. Warshawski novel. When Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city's racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets-her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired her-rise up with a vengeance.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Signet
• ISBN 10: 045123099X
• ISBN 13: 9780451230997
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 416