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Slayground: A Parker Novel de Richard Stark

Slayground: A Parker Novel

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

Limbajul este tăios. Proza lui Richard Stark nu irosește niciun cuvânt. Observăm un stil minimalist care elimină orice urmă de sentiment. Parker este captiv. Un jaf a mers prost. Acum, el se află în Fun Island, un parc de distracții închis, dar locul nu are nimic amuzant. Este o capcană de oțel. Credem că tensiunea atinge cote maxime aici. Parker este singur împotriva unei armate de mafioți locali. Nu are gloanțe suficiente. Nu are ieșiri. Remarcăm cum autorul transformă un spațiu al bucuriei într-un câmp de luptă claustrofob. Această structură de tip „vânător și pradă” este dusă la extrem. Slayground amintește de The Seventh prin ritmul alert și mizele criminale, dar se diferențiază prin izolarea totală a protagonistului într-un decor singular și bizar. Dacă în The Hunter am văzut începutul implacabil al lui Parker, iar în Butcher's Moon l-am urmărit confruntându-se cu un întreg oraș, aici vedem ingeniozitatea sa pură în condiții de asediu. Recomandăm acest volum pentru felul în care Stark refuză clișeele de salvare miraculoasă. Parker nu speră la noroc; el calculează. Stilul „hard-boiled” este aici în forma sa cea mai pură. Nu există moralitate, doar supraviețuire. Este, probabil, cel mai visceral roman din serie. Acțiunea este neîntreruptă. Surprizele sunt brutale. Finalul nu oferă iertare, ci doar realitatea dură a lumii interlope.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226770925
ISBN-10: 0226770923
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Slayground pentru amatorii de romane polițiste de tip asediu. Cititorul câștigă o lecție magistrală de suspensie și economie de limbaj. Este ocazia perfectă de a vedea cum Parker, un antierou amoral, folosește un parc de distracții abandonat ca pe o armă. Dacă vreți să înțelegeți rădăcinile stilului noir care a influențat cinematografia modernă, acesta este volumul esențial.

Despre autor

Richard Stark a fost principalul pseudonim sub care Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) a scris cele mai dure romane polițiste ale sale. Prolific și versatil, Westlake a primit în 1993 titlul de Grand Master din partea Mystery Writers of America, cea mai înaltă distincție a societății. Sub numele de Stark, el a creat personajul Parker, definind standardul pentru genul „hard-boiled”. Opera sa a lăsat o amprentă profundă asupra literaturii și filmului contemporan, fiind citat ca influență majoră de mari regizori și scriitori de succes.

Descriere scurtă

What would you do if you were trapped in an abandoned amusement park full of gunmen trying to kill you? If you were Parker, you'd simply set to work . . . 

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 hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters, in Slayground. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can’t afford a single miscalculation. He’s low on bullets and making it out alive is a long shot—but, as anyone who’s crossed his path knows, no one is better at playing higher stakes with shorter odds.

The wildest of all Parker novels, Slayground offers nonstop action, shuddering suspense, and jaw-dropping surprises. 

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.”

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

“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.”

"A dimestore shiv of a book about what happens when corrupt cops tip off the mob about a car accident in which an incompetent wheelman flips a getaway car next to an amusement park called Fun Island. (Hint: Master thief/antihero extraordinaire Parker survives; a lot of other people die.)"

“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."

“Richard Stark’s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.”

"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."