The Rat on Fire George V. Higgins

Name: The Rat on Fire von George V. Higgins
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Zusammenfassung

'Higgins...has arranged the conventions of the crime novel into something new: oblique, bleak and often graveyard funny' SUNDAY TIMES

The Rat on Fire Zusammenfassung

The Rat on Fire George V. Higgins

'Higgins...has arranged the conventions of the crime novel into something new: oblique, bleak and often graveyard funny' SUNDAY TIMES

'Every American crime writer of the past 30 years owes a debt to George V Higgins. Higgins is the daddy. Read him and rejoice' Val McDermid

'Higgins deserves to stand in the company of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction' Scott Turow

When the tenants of Jerry Fein's dilapidated buildings refuse to pay the rent on account of the rats, Jerry drafts in arsonist Leo Proctor to take care of the problem. After all, the place is insured and the fire marshall's back is turned, so what could go wrong?

The Rat on Fire Bewertungen

Higgins deserves to stand in the company of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction -- Scott Turow
Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them ... as distinctive as a fingerprint. * NEW YORKER *
The dialogue is everything, Runyonesque, dripping with lovely sewage * OBSERVER *
Every American crime writer of the past 30 years owes a debt to George V Higgins. Higgins is the daddy. Read him and rejoice -- Val McDermid

Über George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins was a lawyer in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, in the Organized Crime section and the Criminal Division, and an Assistant United States Attorney, in Boston. He then founded his own private practice, defending Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy and Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Described as 'the Balzac of the Boston underworld', he wrote more than twenty novels, including a number of lowlife masterpieces constructed almost entirely out of pitch-perfect dialogue. He died in 1999.

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Sku

GOR004849267

ISBN 13

9781409137542

ISBN 10

1409137546

Titel

The Rat on Fire George V. Higgins

Autor

George V. Higgins

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Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Orion Publishing Co

Datum

20130117

Anzahl der Seiten

224

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