Gun, With Occasional Music - Couverture rigide

Lethem, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151364583 ISBN 13 : 9780151364589

Editeur : Harcourt, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Lethem Jonathan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.
Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.
Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.

Revue de presse :

PRAISE FOR GUN, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC
"Marries Chandler's style and Philip K. Dick's vision . . . An audaciously assured first novel."-Newsweek

"Marvelous . . . Stylish, intelligent, darkly humorous and highly readable entertainment."-San Francisco Examiner

PRAISE FOR MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
"The best novel of the year . . . Utterly original and deeply moving."-Esquire

"Philip Marlowe would blush. And tip his fedora."-Newsweek

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0151364583
• ISBN 13: 9780151364589
• Reliure: Relié