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Deadly Edge: A Parker Novel de Richard Stark

Deadly Edge: A Parker Novel

Autor Richard Stark Cuvânt înainte de Charles Ardai
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2010

Proza lui Richard Stark este un mecanism de precizie, lipsit de orice ornament inutil. Remarcăm un limbaj minimalist, aproape tăios, care refuză sentimentalismul în favoarea unei acțiuni brute. Jafurile sunt mari. Cadavrele se adună repede. Amoralitatea este lege. În Deadly Edge, sfârșitul anilor '60 nu aduce pace, ci un masacru. Parker jefuiește un concert rock. Planul eșuează tragic. Tensiunea crește instantaneu. Considerăm această intrare drept una dintre cele mai violente din serie. Doi ucigași sadici apar în peisaj. Parker nu mai este doar vânătorul, ci și ținta. Claire, partenera sa, pune mâna pe o pușcă. Nu există loc pentru 'Summer of Love'. La intersecția dintre The Seventh și The Score, această lucrare combină structura unui jaf complex cu brutalitatea unui conflict personal inevitabil. Dacă în The Hunter asistăm la nașterea unui antierou implacabil, aici vedem un Parker forțat să își apere propriul teritoriu împotriva unor minți instabile. Spre deosebire de amploarea din Butcher's Moon, unde Parker înfruntă un oraș întreg, Deadly Edge se concentrează pe o amenințare viscerală, imediată. Stilul rămâne neschimbat: direct, rece, letal. Fiecare decizie greșită poate fi ultima. Este un portret brutal al sfârșitului unei ere, unde singura regulă care contează este supraviețuirea celui mai nemilos. Parker nu iartă. Parker nu uită. Parker acționează.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226770918
ISBN-10: 0226770915
Pagini: 232
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

Pentru cititorii care caută esența genului hard-boiled, fără menajamente sau clișee morale. Câștigați o experiență de lectură intensă, un ritm care nu lasă timp de respirație și o lecție de minimalism narativ. Este motivul pentru care autori precum Quentin Tarantino sau Stephen King îl citează pe Stark ca influență majoră.

Despre autor

Richard Stark a fost cel mai cunoscut pseudonim al lui Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008), un autor prolific și un maestru incontestabil al literaturii polițiste. Sub acest nume, el a creat seria Parker, definind standardele stilului hard-boiled prin realism și rigoare. Cariera sa impresionantă a fost recunoscută în 1993, când asociația Mystery Writers of America i-a acordat titlul de Grand Master, cea mai înaltă distincție a societății, confirmându-i statutul de figură centrală în istoria genului crime.

Descriere scurtă

One of the most hard-boiled and violent entries in the classic series starring Parker, the toughest heister out there

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.

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself—and his woman, Claire—menaced by a pair of sadistic, strung-out killers who want anything but a Summer of Love. Parker has a score to settle while Claire’s armed with her first rifle—and they’re both ready to usher in the end of the Age of Aquarius.

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.”

“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.”


“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.”

“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."