Hotel Paradise - Couverture souple

Grimes, Martha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679758798 ISBN 13 : 9780679758792

Editeur : Random House Large Print, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Grimes Martha

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Extrait

from Chapter One, pp. 3-4:

It's a blowing day. The wind feels weighted and the air like iron. As I walked the half-mile to the lake this evening, I could hardly push against this heaviness that settled on me like a coat of snow.

I have been sitting on this low mossy wall for an hour, but I can't see the Devereau house, or if there is any light in it. The woods are so thick by the spring, they blot out the other side of the lake like ink spilled across the page I'm reading. This time I brought a book; I mean to wait, though I don't think he'll be back.

I wonder now if there are mysteries never meant to be solved. Or not meant to be solved to a certainty, for I do have some idea of what must have happened near White's Bridge. I've found out the answers to a lot of questions, but those answers pull more questions out of hiding, ones I never would have thought to ask.

I think I know how Fern died and who killed her. But I don't know why, exactly. I have to guess at the why. Even if I was absolutely sure, I would still not tell the police, not even the Sheriff. Some things mean more than the law. I have not sat through all of Clint Eastwood's old westerns for nothing. Clint doesn't always hound a rustler to his grave, not if there's a reason to let him off more important than a dozen law-abiding reasons to arrest him. Call it cowpoke justice. I hear people say "It's between me and my conscience," but I think it's awful risky to go by your conscience, for your conscience can be pretty leaky. I think Clint would agree.

Anyway. That was the decision I made this morning, not to tell the Sheriff, and it weighs mighty heavily upon me. What I discovered over the past couple of weeks is that what I think is a difficult decision to make is really a difficult decision to make. And what I think is hard and painful is truly hard and painful.

I guess that doesn't sound like much learnt, but I think it is.
From the Hardcover edition.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Hotel Paradise to pierwsza w Polsce powiesc Marthy Grimes, amerykanskiej autorki nastrojowych, oryginalnych kryminalów cieszacych sie miedzynarodowym uznaniem. Jej ksiazki od wielu lat zajmuja czolowe miejsca na listach bestsellerów, doczekaly sie przekladów m.in. na francuski, niemiecki, grecki, wloski, niderlandzki, serbski.

Emma Graham mieszka w hotelu Paradise w Spirit Lake, malym kurorcie, który dni swietnosci ma juz za soba. Ojciec Emmy nie zyje, matka, zajeta utrzymaniem hotelu, nie poswieca córce zbyt wiele czasu. Marzycielska, a zarazem dociekliwa dziewczynka, pozostawiona sama sobie, zaczyna interesowac sie smiercia innej dwunastolatki, Mary-Evelyn Devereaux, która przed czterdziestu laty utonela w srodku nocy w pobliskim jeziorze. Gdy w sasiedniej miejscowosci zostanie popelnione morderstwo, zzerana ciekawoscia Emma uzyje wszelkich mozliwych podstepów, by wydobyc informacje od swiadków zdarzen minionych i obecnych.
Uwodzicielska proza Grimes wykracza poza ramy kryminalu, a sensacyjna fabula jest tylko pretekstem dla subtelnej analizy samotnosci dziecinstwa oraz dwuznacznosci wieku dojrzewania. Wszystko tu sie miesza - kilkoma celnymi slowami, jednym satyrycznym obrazem, autorka przedstawia swiat malomiasteczkowej Ameryki, z czuloscia opisujac kraine zapomnianych hoteli, piaszczystych dróg i zdziwaczalych staruszek, mieszkajacych na strychu. To literatura przesiaknieta melancholijna zaduma, lecz takze przewrotnym, uroczym poczuciem humoru, przeznaczona dla wszystkich, którym bliski jest duch Faulknera.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Large Print
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679758798
• ISBN 13: 9780679758792
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Purmerul LTD; https://strengholt.nl/en/; ; 22 Liuleburgaz Str., floor 4, app. 9; Plovdiv; Bulgarie