Night Shift - Couverture souple

Wolff, Maritta

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743254872 ISBN 13 : 9780743254878

Editeur : Scribner, 2006

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Originally published in 1942, Maritta Wolff 's Night Shift was an instant commercial success, receiving rave reviews and praise for her effortless grasp of human nature and stunning ear for dialogue. Now, it joins Wolff 's first novel, Whistle Stop, and her last, Sudden Rain, in a reissue that brings new readers to this riveting writer.

Sally Otis works herself to the bone as a waitress, supporting her three children and a jobless younger sister. With her bills mounting and no rest in sight, Sally's resolve is beginning to crumble when her swaggering older sister, Petey Braun, appears on the scene. Petey, with her furs and jewels and exotic trips, is an American career woman -- one who makes a career of men. But when Petey gets a gig at the glamorous, rowdy local nightclub, it will forever alter the world of the struggling Otis family.

A swift-paced tale full of tension, excitement, violence, and even bloodshed, Night Shift possesses the vividness of a documentary and the page-turning quality of the best commercial fiction -- even decades after its first publication.

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Sally Otis works herself to the bone as a waitress, supporting her three children and a jobless younger sister. With her bills mounting and no rest in sight, Sally's resolve is beginning to crumble when her swaggering older sister, Petey Braun, appears on the scene. Petey, with her furs and jewels and exotic trips, is an American career woman -one who makes a career out of men. But when Petey gets a gig at the glamorous, rowdy local nightclub, it will forever alter the world of the struggling Otis family.
Night Shift is a vivid and page-turning tale, full of tension, excitement, violence and even bloodshed.
Praise for SUDDEN RAIN
'In this fiercely beautiful and exhilaratingly intelligent novel, Maritta Wolff anatomizes her characters with such vivid clarity that it's almost impossible to believe that they aren't still driving the streets of Los Angeles' Margot Livesey
'That Maritta Wolff was a serious artist is splendidly evident' LITERARY REVIEW
'A fascinating time-capsule take on living and loving in late Sixties Los Angeles' THE DAILY EXPRESS

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743254872
• ISBN 13: 9780743254878
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560