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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664424364
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ISBN: 9781664532199
| Runtime: | 3.83 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce."-- The Globe and Mail Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine The Big Sleep via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton. John Goldbach is the author of Selected Blackouts, a collection of stories.Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“John Goldbach’s first novel is an out-and-out romp, though a cerebral
and extremely clever one…Goldbach’s prose is polished and inventive,
and the book is at once a clever satire and satisfying bit of
strangeness.” —Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“The world has hitherto been divided into plotters who wrote in shoddy
sentences and linguistic aesthetes who wrote beautiful sentences but
couldn’t make anything happen on the page, no plot. Goldbach manages to
do both—a thrilling plot and beautiful language. He has raised the bar
for both murder mysteries and literary writing.” —Josip Novakovich, author of Infidelities
“This detective has good goofy edges and I expect them to get
goofier and better over time. Mr. Goldbach will be a fun writer to
watch. Check him out.” —Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
Author
Author Bio: John Goldbach
John Goldbach is the author of The Devil and the Detective and Selected Blackouts, a collection of stories. He lives in Montreal.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 3.83 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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