Icelander

Dustin Long

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Langue : anglais

Edité par McSweeney's Books, 2006

193241651X / 9781932416510

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Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie: a madcap mystery in the deceptive tradition of The Crying of Lot 49; The Third Policeman meets The DaVinci Code. ICELANDER is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy romp steeped equally in Nordic lore and pulpy intrigue. When Shirley MacGuffin is found murdered one day prior to the annual town celebration in remembrance of Our Heroine's mother--the legendary crime-stopper and evil-thwarter Emily Bean--everyone expects Our Heroine to follow in her mother's footsteps and solve the case. She, however, has no interest in inheriting the family business, or being chased through steam-tunnels, or listening to skaldic karaoke, or fleeing the inhuman Refurserkir, or-- But Evil has no interest in her lack of interest, and thus: adventure ensues." [publisher copy] "Nabokov meets Lemony Snicket in this manic Chinese box version of a mystery. The story, on the surface, is a whodunit set in Iceland, but it's an Iceland of fictitious cities and fantastical underground lands, in which Our Heroine (the only name given to the book's central character) searches for her lost dog while resisting and then reluctantly solving the mystery of who murdered her best friend. The book's multiple narrators include the grownup Our Heroine, a Hollywood actor, a pair of detectives whose style of speech owes more than a little to Yoda, the murder victim's husband, an Icelandic gossip columnist, and the overnarrator who speaks through the book's 53 footnotes, Prefatory Note, Prelude and Afterword. Through all of this ancillary material, the overnarrator refers to a series of mystery novels featuring Our Heroine's now-dead mother and now-demented father and their nemesis, an Icelandic Moriarty. The murder victim herself speaks through notes she has left behind, one of which reads: 'We must create incomprehensible things in order to have an analogy for our incomprehension of the universe.' Perhaps it's not quite the imperative she thought."--Publishers Weekly. Pristine hardcover w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, no jacket as issued.…

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Titre
Icelander
Auteur
Dustin Long
Éditeur
McSweeney's Books
Année de publication
2006
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
No Jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
193241651X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781932416510
Édition
1st Edition

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