Stardust: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kanon, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1439156328 ISBN 13 : 9781439156322

Editeur : Washington Square Press, 2010

Synopsis

Stardust The author of "The Good German" returns with his most accomplished novel yet--a tale of Hollywood glamour, postwar espionage, and family secrets. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Spectacular in every way ... wonderfully imagined, wonderfully written, an urgent personal mystery set against the sweep of glamourous and sinister history'
Lee Child
A mesmerising tale of post-war espionage, and one man's determination to discover the truth about his brother's death …
Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier returns from war to the news that his brother Daniel has died in mysterious circumstances. The papers say that it was an accident, but others suspect suicide. Daniel was a celebrated filmmaker; a heroic figure who helped many prominent German intellectuals escape Europe before the war and then settled in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife, Liesl. Why would a man with such a bright future take his own life? Could he have been murdered?
Ben is determined to uncover the truth. But beneath the surface shine of the movie business lies a darker world where even the biggest stars and star-makers are vulnerable to old secrets being exposed and old loyalties tested …
'Kanon is fast approaching the complexity and relevance not just of le Carré and Greene but even of Orwell' New York Times
'No one writes period fiction with the same style and suspense - not to mention substance - as Joseph Kanon. A terrific read'
Scott Turow
'Delectable … and Kanon renders it in sharp prose that's punched up by lines worthy of Bogart or Mitchum' Washington Post

Revue de presse :

“Kanon operates with an intelligence that briskly evokes the atmosphere of a vanished era.” (The New York Times)

“The kind of story that demands fog and wisps of cigarette smoke, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, elegance and bespoke tailoring cozied right up to the bloodstains and betrayal.”
  (Dallas Morning News)

“Sharp prose that’s punched up by lines worthy of Bogart or Mitchum.” (The Washington Post)

“Electric. . . . The dialogue is pitch-perfect, a kind of jazzy patter that feels filmic itself.” (The Sunday Oregonian)

“Kanon knows his way around a good story.” (USA Today)

“Delectable stuff.” (The Washington Post)

“A delicious synthesis of menace and glamour, historical fact and rich imagination.”  (Seattle Times)

“Kanon’s prose is eminently noir, all cigarette smoke and magnesium flashbulbs.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Comes within a whisker of being flawless.”  (Kirkus Reviews)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Washington Square Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439156328
• ISBN 13: 9781439156322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528