Dark Companion (平装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),
品牌: Jim Nisbet
基本信息出版社:OVERLOOK (2011年3月29日)平装:144页正文语种:英语ISBN:1590202023条形码:9781590202029商品重量:46 gASIN:1590202023
商品描述内容简介Overlook continues its reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbet¹s oeuvre withDark Companion. Nisbet, the acclaimed noir writer from San Francisco captures the absurdities of present-day America with a rare pungency in this noir gem.
Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian-American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending his garden and studying his beloved astronomy. When Rolf ¹s relationship with his seedy, drug-dealing neighbor, Toby Pride, and Pride¹s stoner girlfriend takes a weird turn, Rolf¹s placid world is shattered and he becomes a fugitive from justice. Crime, cosmology, politics, philosophy, physics and more enter into this cautionary tale, which climaxes with the suddenness of a cobra strike and then delivers a denouement that¹s both stunning and absolutely perfect.媒体推荐Praise for Jim Nisbet's Previous Works:
³Truly, hellishly gritty²--Los Angeles Times
³Jim Nisbetwhose pen is mightier than a million swordsdoes it again.² --Michael Connelly
³In the tradition of Jim Thompson and Damon Runyon, Nisbet is too good to miss.² --San Francisco Chronicle