Terminal City
What Raymond Chandler would have written if he'd lived in Vancouver. Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach. Where Chandler-esque noir meets rainy Vancouver you get Terminal City. The week before WWII breaks out wealthy Pug Westwood throws a beach party: by the next morning his son Harry is dead, petty crook Emmet Fanning has fled to LA, and Emmet's girlfriend Mia and taxi driver Dan Kearney are having a fling. Twenty years later, Emmet, now a scandalous Hollywood star, is back, his seventeen-year-old girlfriend struggling to keep him alive and sober. As his old enemies resurface Mia seeks out Dan again and asks for his…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-9929927-5-0
- EAN: 9780992992750
- Produktnummer: 21710036
- Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 270 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.4 cm 291 g
- Gewicht: 291
Über den Autor
James Ferron Anderson was born in Northern Ireland, where he worked as a weaver, glassblower and soldier. He moved with his family to England, studied at the University of East Anglia, and began to write. One of his first short stories, The Bog Menagerie, won the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award in his native Ireland. He was an Escalator Award winner in England with I Still Miss Someone (now The Dangerous Edge of Things). He is a Writers' Centre Free Reads winner, and has had short stories broadcast on radio. His novel The River and The Sea won the inaugural Rethink New Novels Award, and was published soon after. He lives and works in Norwich, and visits British Columbia frequently.
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