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Butcher's Moon: A Parker Novel de Richard Stark

Butcher's Moon: A Parker Novel

Autor Richard Stark Cuvânt înainte de Lawrence Block
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2011

Parker pășește din nou în Tyler, orașul corupt unde aproape și-a pierdut viața. Nu caută iertare. Caută banii furați în Slayground. Ne-a atras atenția imediat brutalitatea rece a acestei premise: un om contra unui întreg aparat mafiot local. Observăm cum Richard Stark abandonează structura scurtă a romanelor anterioare pentru o desfășurare de forțe masivă. Aceasta este cea mai lungă și densă lucrare din A Parker Novel. Tensiunea este constantă. Ritmul, deși controlat, devine sufocant pe măsură ce Parker asamblează o echipă din vechi colaboratori pentru a destabiliza orașul. Apreciem modul în care autorul transformă jaful într-un război urban total. Pe același raft cu The Score de Richard Stark, cartea se distinge prin anvergura conflictului și prin natura personală a misiunii. Dacă în The Hunter am văzut începutul unei răzbunări, aici asistăm la apogeul unei cariere criminale. Stilul este tăios, fără adjective inutile sau introspecții morale. Personajele acționează, nu dezbat. Este un punct de cotitură în opera autorului, marcând momentul în care Stark a dispărut din peisajul literar pentru mai bine de două decenii. Totul converge spre un final exploziv, unde fiecare greșeală este fatală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226770956
ISBN-10: 0226770958
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un roman polițist dur, fără compromisuri etice. Este volumul esențial pentru fanii seriei, oferind o scară a acțiunii mult mai mare decât titlurile precedente. Câștigați o experiență de lectură intensă, un curs de strategie criminală aplicată și ocazia de a vedea un protagonist iconic împins la limitele sale extreme într-un oraș care vrea să-l înghită.

Despre autor

Richard Stark a fost cel mai cunoscut pseudonim al lui Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008), o figură centrală a literaturii polițiste americane. Prolific și versatil, Westlake a primit titlul de Grand Master din partea Mystery Writers of America în 1993. Sub numele de Stark, el a creat personajul Parker, un spărgător profesionist amoral care a redefinit genul hard-boiled. Stilul său minimalist și lipsit de sentimentalisme a influențat generații de scriitori și regizori, de la Quentin Tarantino la Stephen King, rămânând un etalon al prozei de gen.

Descriere scurtă

 The biggest, baddest novel in the entire Parker series, Butcher's Moon finds Parker taking on a whole mobbed-up town--and you can guess who comes out on top.

Richard Stark's Parker novels are the hardest of hard-boiled, classic crime novels where the heists are huge, the body counts are high, and the bad guys usually win. 

The Parker novels have been a huge influence on countless writers and filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, Stephen King, George Pelecanos, Colson Whitehead, Lucy Sante, John Banville, and many more. Their stripped-down language and hard-as-nails amorality create an unforgettable world where the next score could be the big one, but your next mistake could also be your last. There's nothing else like them.

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long as most of the master heister’s adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town where he lost his money, and nearly his life, in Slayground, Parker assembles a stunning cast of characters from throughout his career for one gigantic, blowout job: starting—and finishing—a gang war. It feels like the Parker novel to end all Parker novels, and for nearly twenty-five years that’s what it was. After its publication in 1974, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.”
 
Featuring a new introduction by Westlake’s close friend and writing partner, Lawrence Block, this classic Parker adventure deserves a place of honor on any crime fan’s bookshelf. More than thirty-five years later, Butcher’s Moon still packs a punch: keep your calendar clear when you pick it up, because once you open it you won’t want to do anything but read until the last shot is fired.

Notă biografică

Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993 the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.

Recenzii

"Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag."
 

“The Parker novels were very influential to [Reservoir Dogs].”

“Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”

“Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.”

"The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own."
“Richard Stark’s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.”

“Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark.”

“Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.”

“Elmore Leonard wouldn’t write what he does if Stark hadn’t been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t write what he does without Leonard. . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.”

“Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.”

“Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity—a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.”

"Parker is a brilliant invention. . . . What chiefly distinguishes Westlake, under whatever name, is his passion for process and mechanics. . . . Parker appears to have eliminated everything from his program but machine logic, but this is merely protective coloration. He is a romantic vestige, a free-market anarchist whose independent status is becoming a thing of the past."

"I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written."

"If you're a fan of noir novels and haven't yet read Richard Stark, you may want to give these books a try. Who knows? Parker may just be the son of a bitch you've been searching for."

"The University of Chicago Press has recently undertaken a campaign to get Parker back in print in affordable and handsome editions, and I dove in. And now I get it."

"Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments."

“The UC Press mission, to reprint the 1960s Parker novels of Richard Stark (the late Donald Westlake), is wholly admirable. The books have been out of print for decades, and the fast-paced, hard-boiled thrillers featuring the thief Parker are brilliant.”

“Fiercely distracting . . . . Westlake is an expert plotter; and while Parker is a blunt instrument of a human being depicted in rudimentary short grunts of sentences, his take on other characters reveals a writer of great humor and human understanding.”

"Richard Stark’s Parker crime novels are the ultimate page-turners."