Providence - Couverture souple

Wolff, Geoffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1567928102 ISBN 13 : 9781567928105

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2024

Synopsis

Attorney Adam Dwyer has six months to live. Carla Dwyer has to try and relax. Lieutenant Tom Cocoran has twenty years on the force. Baby and Skippy have a couple of hours to kill. All five of these people will never be the same after a series of violent events, hilarious as they are tragic, upset the equilibrium of life in a small, strange city.

Between Boston and New York City lies Providence, Rhode Island. Long considered one of the most corrupt cities in the country, it was often difficult to discern who was more corrupt, the mafia bosses or the suits at city hall. But as the story begins it was definitely a gangland figure (known as "The Moron") whose slashed, bullet-ridden body Lieutenant Cocoran fished from the Providence River.

Providence is a fast-paced black comedy of parallel lives in the small, East Coast port city. Adam Dwyer is a criminal lawyer dying of leukemia. He and his wife Clara receive another blow when their home is robbed by two young thugs, Skippy and Baby. Tom Corcoran, the police officer assigned to the case, becomes involved with Skippy's waitress girlfriend, Lisa.

Long out of print, this New York Times bestselling novel is a raucous gallery of grotesques, a litany of sex, violence, crime, and corruption cast against a precisely drawn portrait of Providence, from the streets of Federal Hill (home of the city's mafiosi) to the fashionable upper East Side (rife with homes ripe for robbing).

This Nonpareil edition includes a new afterword by acclaimed television and film writer Ian Maxtone-Graham.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Geoffrey Wolff is an award-winning and bestselling novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel
writer. He lives on the coast of Maine.

Ian Maxtone-Graham has writing credits that include Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, VEEP, and Beavis and Butt-Head. He graduated from Brown University, where he first met Geoffrey Wolff.

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1567928102
• ISBN 13: 9781567928105
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: DAVID R. GODINE, PUBLISHER; hansebuch@gmail.com; ; Tulpenstr. 2c; Berlin; Berlin; 12203; Allemagne