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A Noise Downstairs de Linwood Barclay

A Noise Downstairs

Autor Linwood Barclay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2019

Proza lui Linwood Barclay este un mecanism de precizie, un asalt constant asupra siguranței domestice. Observăm cum autorul transformă un obiect banal — o mașină de scris vintage — într-un instrument al terorii pure. Stilul este direct, nervos, fără ornamente inutile care să încetinească prăbușirea lui Paul Davis. Un profesor universitar trece de la o viață normală la un coșmar marcat de PTSD după ce surprinde un criminal în plină acțiune. Subliniem măiestria cu care Barclay construiește ambiguitatea: sunetele nocturne sunt reale sau doar ecourile unei minți traumatizate? La intersecția dintre The Bad Place de Dean Koontz și Before She Knew Him de Peter Swanson, cartea combină paranoia legată de spațiul locuit cu instabilitatea psihologică a unui martor care știe prea multe. Considerăm că A Noise Downstairs reprezintă un punct de cotitură în opera autorului. Dacă în Find You First sau Take Your Breath Away miza era adesea legată de secrete de familie și dispariții, aici Barclay apasă pedala suspansului psihologic claustrofob. Tensiunea crește insuportabil când Paul descoperă o legătură macabră: criminalul își forța victimele să tasteze scuze înainte de moarte. Este aceeași mașină? Ritmul este alert, capitolele scurte forțează cititorul să înainteze într-un labirint de întrebări fără răspuns facil. Nu este doar un roman polițist, ci o explorare brutală a modului în care o singură noapte poate distruge iremediabil simțul realității.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781409164005
ISBN-10: 1409164004
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 194 x 128 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Orion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman pentru tensiunea psihologică excepțională și modul în care transformă paranoia într-o formă de artă. Dacă apreciați personajele vulnerabile care trebuie să își demonstreze propria sănătate mintală în timp ce vânează un criminal, A Noise Downstairs este alegerea ideală. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură intensă care vă va face să ascultați cu atenție orice zgomot suspect din propria casă.

Despre autor

Linwood Barclay, fost editorialist la Toronto Star, este un autor de succes internațional, tradus în numeroase limbi și apreciat de critici pentru capacitatea de a scrie thrillere psihologice captivante. Locuiește lângă Toronto și este autorul a numeroase romane premiate, printre care No Time for Goodbye, care a fost opționat pentru ecranizare. Stilul său este adesea comparat cu cel al lui Harlan Coben, fiind lăudat de însuși Stephen King pentru modul în care stăpânește mecanismele suspansului modern.

Descriere

The multi-million copy internationally bestselling author and master of the shocking twist, Linwood Barclay, is back with a nail-biting new thriller which will keep you awake all night . . .



Paul Davis forgets things. Why he walked into a room. Who he spoke to, and what they said. What he promised his wife he'd do. Sometimes it's too much, and the panic takes hold.

But he wasn't always like this.

Eight months ago, Paul was attacked - left for dead after seeing something he shouldn't have - and has been piecing his life back together ever since.

During the days, therapy helps. But at night, he hears noises that no one else can. That nobody believes. Sometimes he thinks someone is in the house. Other times, the sounds are far stranger.

Either he's losing his mind - or someone wants him to think he is. Or maybe something even darker is waiting downstairs . . .

Recenzii

a creepy and compelling standalone.. Barclay expertly weaves together the various plot strands to reach a wholly unexpected conclusion.
cunning.. twist-packed
The king of the thriller returns with this spooky tale of a man recovering from serious trauma who starts to hear noises in the night.
With a tight plot, delivered in short, punchy chapters, it's hard to resist racing through - to the final twist.
One of the world's finest thriller writers on the top of his game. A Noise Downstairs is a blinder - his best yet
Vintage Barclay - an utterly compelling read with a twist you won't see coming. I loved it!
Linwood Barclay's novels - as intelligent as Michael Connelly's, as compelling as Harlan Coben's - never fail to astonish. A Noise Downstairs, his best work yet, is a cobra of a story: smooth, slippery, unnerving . . . and likely to strike when you least expect it. I devoured this book
A suspense master
No one can thrill you and chill you better than Barclay

Textul de pe ultima copertă

The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller in which a man is troubled by odd sounds for which there are no rational explanations
Be afraid . . .
College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal life. But that normal existence is turned upside down late one evening when he spots his colleague Kenneth driving in a suspicious manner along a deserted road. Curious and concerned, Paul follows Kenneth, and catches him in a horrifying act—trying to dispose of two dead bodies.
That was eight months ago.
After nearly losing his own life that night, Paul is battling PTSD, depression, and severe problems at work and home. To cheer him up, his worried wife, Charlotte, gives him a surprise present: a vintage typewriter—complete with ink ribbons and heavy round keys—because he’s always wanted one. Paul feels inspired to write about the terrifying experience that damaged his life. “If I can look into the eyes of evil in the real world,” Paul explains, “maybe I won’t have to run from it in my sleep.”
However, the typewriter soon becomes a source of anxiety itself. Paul swears he can hear the keys clacking in the early hours of the morning when everyone is in bed. Charlotte and his son deny playing with the old-fashioned machine or hearing any strange sounds. It is only Paul who can hear the noise he swears is coming from downstairs. Are Paul’s claims real—or is he going off the rails as Charlotte fears?
Paul believes that the typewriter is connected to the dark events that night on the Post Road, as implausible as that seems. After all, Kenneth is in prison and he worked alone. So how could the typewriter have anything to do with the crime? Increasingly tormented yet determined to discover the truth, Paul begins reinvestigating the deaths himself.
But that may not be the best thing to do. Maybe Paul should just get rid of the typewriter. Maybe he should stop asking questions and simply walk away while he can. Because if he doesn’t, his darkest nightmares just might come true.

Notă biografică

Linwood Barclay is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty previous novels, and two thrillers for children. His books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw it Coming and his book The Accident has been made into a TV series in France. His novel No Time for Goodbye was a global bestseller. A native of Connecticut, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Neetha.