The Big Hello and the Long Goodbye - Couverture rigide

Gessner, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1591331994 ISBN 13 : 9781591331995

Editeur : Hilliard & Harris, 2007

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Gessner is a licensed private investigator based in San Francisco. Born in New York City, he, like many of his generation who came of age personally and politically during the Vietnam War, migrated westward to San Francisco to reinvent himself. Too late for the Summer of Love, there was still plenty of time to fall in love with the city that had been home to an earlier author/detective. His first weeks were spent on a friend's couch devouring early paperback editions of Dashiell Hammett's stories, many with maps conveniently placed inside their back covers. Gessner has been a Visiting Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University and for one summer early in his career, he worked as a reporter for the Village Voice. He graduated with highest honors from Swarthmore College with Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and attended Yale Drama School. Prior to his arrival in California, Gessner had been an independent filmmaker; several of his documentaries that dealt with anti-war and labor themes received prizes at international film festivals.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Walker, a transplanted New Yorker now eking out a living as a private eye in San Francisco, has a million-dollar view of the Bay with a rent-controlled apartment attached, a new girlfriend with an attitude, a supposedly lovelorn Indonesian fighting fish (a present from Linda, the girlfriend), and two cases he is coming to care too much about. A loner and outsider, Walker is increasingly drawn to both his clients. As the cases unfold and begin to intertwine, he finds himself pushing the ethical limits of his profession in order to shake loose the truth. Walker's journey takes him from the world of his Nob Hill client to skid row hotel rooms and the grimy Hall of Justice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hilliard & Harris
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1591331994
• ISBN 13: 9781591331995
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible