Shoot the Piano Player - Couverture souple

Goodis, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853753084 ISBN 13 : 9781853753084

Editeur : Prion Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Eddie plays to forget. Haunted by his past, he hides from life playing nightly in a skid row drinking joint - a world of hookers, lowlifes and petty crooks. A hopeless ghost of a man who has ceased caring about himself, he saves his loyalty for others which eventually drags him down.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Once upon a time Eddie played conert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.

Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Goodis (1917-1967), born in Philadelphia, was a screenwriter and author of crime fiction well known for his novel Dark Passage. He wrote the screenplay for Dark Passage which starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. He had received a B.A. in Journalism from Temple University in 1938.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prion Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853753084
• ISBN 13: 9781853753084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible