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Sweet Sunday de John Lawton

Sweet Sunday

Autor John Lawton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2014
A tumultuous novel about America''s loss of innocence in the late Sixties.

Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away... they die. When his oldest friend Mel Kissing dies with an ice pick through his skull, Raines picks up the thread and sets out to ask ''who?'' and ''why?''

But this is America in 1969 and one death is just a drop in the ocean. The USA is about to land a man on the moon and the Vietnam War is ripping the country to pieces, setting sons against fathers, fathers against sons. The Woodstock festival is in full swing and Norman Mailer is standing as candidate for Mayor of New York.

Against this backdrop, Raines'' questions take him back to the childhood home he left in Texas, back to the battered remains of his youth... and as his memory unravels, America unravels with it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611855647
ISBN-10: 1611855640
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 193 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Grove Atlantic

Descriere

A reissue of a standalone novel from John Lawton, set in the American summer of 1969.

Recenzii

“Sweet Sunday is set in the tumultuous ’60s. Lawton has done historical crime before, in his excellent (if slightly creepy) series about Inspector Troy, a WWII-era London police detective. This time we’re in the U.S., where private eye Turner Raines has a specialty: tracking down draft dodgers. . . . Lawton convincingly nails the essence of those chaotic years.”—Adam Woog, Seattle Times

"A sprawling heartbreaker of a novel."—Literary Review

"A terrific job . . . excellent at catching the mood of that hot summer of 1969 when the Vietnam War had divided families."—Observer (London)

"More than enough verve and wit to ensure page-turning wakefulness."—Sunday Times (UK)

"Has all the virtues that have made his work so interesting: a powerfully drawn, conflicted central character, scene-setting of a rate order and (most of all) the kind of characterization that has invoked comparisons with such luminaries as Graham Greene."—Crime Time

"Atmospheric . . . absorbingly intelligent."—Financial Times

"The structure of the book is complex, with frequent changes of place and time, and the author handles it with skill . . . an absorbing read."—Sunday Telegraph

"Beautifully written, in an adventurous, episodic, elegiac style, entirely suitable to its subject matter, this is a marvelously entertaining read and a delightful piece of history viewed from the perspective of its victims."—Morning Star