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Chargement... The Kill-Off (Mulholland Classic) (édition 2014)par Jim Thompson (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Luane Devore está a punto de ser asesinada. Es su tema preferido de conversación. Y nadie sabe quién va a ser el asesino. Podría ser el joven marido al que tiene sometido de una forma inquietante. O el médico insigne con un vergonzoso secreto en su pasado. En El exterminio, el autor de culto de la literatura negra norteamer icana reconfigura la novela de intriga de un modo ingenioso a más no poder. Aquí no se trata de saber quién ha sido el asesino, sino de quién va a serlo. Another dark, disturbing tale from the Duke of American noir fiction. Thompson can spin a tale like few others ever. Just be prepared for characters who are dark, nasty, disturbed, and just plain mean. Centering his story around a housebound hypochondriac recluse who delights in spreading malicious gossip, Thompson introduces a world of small resort town characters who literally hate her. Luanne Devore "had a positively fiendish talent for tossing the knife, for plunging it into exactly the right spot to send the crap flying." There's the town lawyer stuck listening to the old lady. There's the younger husband who was once rumored to be her son and for whom every job in town is drying up. There's the would-be cabaret singer- striptease who the husband fantasizes over. There's the bandleader who takes the singer on as a part of his band, the band members, he notes, didn't have enough talent to wipe a real musician's tail. There's the juvenile delinquent son of the town doctor who rants on about killing people and getting young girls hooked on dope. Cynism just drips off every page as Thompson explores these intriguing characters. Each chapter is a new viewpoint and it is a psychological portrait of all kinds of folks. This may be unlike anything else Thompson wrote in the backwards way the plot develops, but he hasn't lost his touch or his understanding of the human condition. It is hard to understand why this book isn't better known and more widely appreciated. It really is a brilliant piece of literature and perhaps one of the most literary of his works. There's a murder here, but it comes later in the story after the reader gets a chance to feel how so many people had a motive to commit the murder. There were so many that hated, but only one could have done it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the mattress she spends her days resting on. Others want her to stop her malicious gossip--some of which could ruin lives. Told from multiple perspectives, The Kill-Off tells the story of a woman not long for this earth--but who will finally take matters into their own hands, and when? THE KILL-OFF was the basis of Maggie Greenwald's critically acclaimed film of the same name. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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