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The Dreadful Lemon Sky de John D Macdonald

The Dreadful Lemon Sky

Autor John D Macdonald
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2013

Remarcăm în The Dreadful Lemon Sky o etapă de maturitate în vasta serie dedicată lui Travis McGee. John D. MacDonald își scoate din nou detectivul din confortul bărcii Busted Flush pentru a-l arunca în mijlocul unei dileme morale și financiare. Dacă în The Scarlet Ruse sau A Tan and Sandy Silence am văzut un McGee mai contemplativ sau prins în jocuri imobiliare, aici tensiunea este imediată și viscerală. Ora patru dimineața. O fantomă din trecut. Un pachet cu bani. Zece mii de dolari pentru tăcere. Credem că forța acestui roman polițist rezidă în modul în care o favoare aparent simplă se transformă într-o vânătoare periculoasă. Două săptămâni mai târziu, femeia care i-a cerut ajutorul este moartă. Apreciem cum autorul construiește atmosfera sufocantă din Bayside, Florida, un oraș mic măcinat de corupție și sânge. Forța narativă a lui John D Macdonald combinată cu sensibilitatea psihologică din One Fearful Yellow Eye — dar cu un glas propriu, mai sumbru și mai urgent. Nu este doar o recuperare de bunuri, ci o luptă cu propria conștiință într-o lume a drogurilor unde cadavrele încep să se adune. Ritmul este alert, dictat de o necesitate morală pe care McGee nu o poate ignora, chiar dacă riscă să fie depășit de situație. Este o piesă esențială în ansamblul operei lui MacDonald, demonstrând de ce personajul său a rămas un punct de referință în literatura de gen.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812984071
ISBN-10: 0812984072
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 141 x 206 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm The Dreadful Lemon Sky cititorilor care caută un roman polițist clasic, „hard-boiled”, unde etica personajului principal este la fel de importantă ca rezolvarea misterului. Veți câștiga o incursiune fascinantă în Florida anilor '70, departe de imaginea turistică, într-o poveste despre loialitate și pericolele ascunse în spatele banilor nemunciți. Este lectura ideală pentru fanii lui Lee Child care vor să descopere rădăcinile genului.

Despre autor

John D Macdonald a fost unul dintre cei mai prolifici și respectați scriitori americani de romane polițiste, faimos pentru crearea personajului Travis McGee. Cu peste 70 de romane publicate, MacDonald a influențat generații de autori, de la Stephen King la Lee Child. Opera sa este marcată de o observație socială ascuțită și de o critică constantă a dezvoltării imobiliare haotice și a corupției din Florida. Prin seria McGee, începută în 1964, el a definit arhetipul detectivului care trăiește după propriile reguli, combinând acțiunea dură cu introspecția filosofică.

Notă biografică

John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, “They pay me to do this! They don’t realize, I would pay them.” He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986.

Descriere scurtă

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Dreadful Lemon Sky is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
 
Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a breathless ghost from his past: an old flame who needs a place to stash a package full of cash. What’s in it for McGee? Ten grand and no questions asked. Two weeks later, she’s dead.
 
“The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.”—Jonathan Kellerman
 
Carolyn Milligan was only aboard McGee’s boat for one night. She came to drop off a hundred grand for safekeeping. What Carrie really needed was someone to keep her safe. She said she’d be back in a month. Instead Carrie is killed in a dubious roadside accident. Now McGee is left with a fortune—and a nagging conscience.
 
So McGee takes a trip to the seedy little town of Bayside, Florida, to look into Carrie’s life before she showed up on his boat. What McGee finds only pushes him further into the corrupt world of drugs and blood that Carrie was trying to escape. McGee is used to high stakes, but when the bodies start piling up, even he may be in over his head.
 
Features a new Introduction by Lee Child

Recenzii

Praise for John D. MacDonald and the Travis McGee novels
 
“The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King
 
“My favorite novelist of all time . . . All I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me. No price could be placed on the enormous pleasure that his books have given me. He captured the mood and the spirit of his times more accurately, more hauntingly, than any ‘literature’ writer—yet managed always to tell a thunderingly good, intensely suspenseful tale.”—Dean Koontz
 
“To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut
 
“A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best.”—Mary Higgins Clark
 
“A dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character . . . I envy the generation of readers just discovering Travis McGee, and count myself among the many readers savoring his adventures again.”—Sue Grafton
 
“One of the great sagas in American fiction.”—Robert B. Parker
 
“Most readers loved MacDonald’s work because he told a rip-roaring yarn. I loved it because he was the first modern writer to nail Florida dead-center, to capture all its languid sleaze, racy sense of promise, and breath-grabbing beauty.”—Carl Hiaasen
 
“The consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer . . . John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place. The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author and they retain a remarkable sense of freshness.”—Jonathan Kellerman
 
“What a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again.”—Ed McBain
 
“Travis McGee is the last of the great knights-errant: honorable, sensual, skillful, and tough. I can’t think of anyone who has replaced him. I can’t think of anyone who would dare.”—Donald Westlake
 
“There’s only one thing as good as reading a John D. MacDonald novel: reading it again. A writer way ahead of his time, his Travis McGee books are as entertaining, insightful, and suspenseful today as the moment I first read them. He is the all-time master of the American mystery novel.”—John Saul