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The Hunter: A Parker Novel de Richard Stark

The Hunter: A Parker Novel

Autor Richard Stark
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2008

Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor care caută esența genului hard-boiled, unde moralitatea este opțională, iar supraviețuirea este singura lege. Putem afirma că The Hunter este punctul zero al unei mitologii a crimei care a influențat generații de scriitori și regizori. Parker nu este un erou. Este o forță a naturii. Trădat, împușcat și lăsat să ardă într-o casă incendiată, el refuză să moară. Ritmul este brutal. Proza este tăioasă. Parker intră în New York City cu un singur scop: recuperarea banilor și eliminarea celor care l-au vândut. Dacă The Seventh v-a captivat prin precizia execuției unui jaf, această carte extinde experiența în direcția unei obsesii pentru răzbunare pură, nealterată de remușcări. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de confruntările la scară largă din Butcher's Moon sau tensiunea din Deadly Edge, acest prim roman este mult mai personal și mai concentrat. Stilul lui Richard Stark elimină orice ornament inutil. Fiecare capitol pulsează de o urgență rece. Nu există spațiu pentru introspecție, doar pentru acțiune calculată. Este fundamentul pe care s-au construit ulterior The Outfit și restul seriei, definind un arhetip al antieroului care nu poate fi oprit. Experiența lecturii este una de o intensitate constantă, un mecanism narativ reglat perfect pentru a livra tensiune fără compromisuri.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226770994
ISBN-10: 0226770990
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile romanului polițist modern. Cititorul câștigă acces la o lume aspră, descrisă cu o economie de mijloace fascinantă. Este o lecție de stil despre cum se construiește tensiunea prin fapte, nu prin adjective. Dacă apreciați personajele implacabile și intrigile directe, Parker este companionul ideal pentru o lectură intensă.

Despre autor

Richard Stark a fost unul dintre cele mai cunoscute pseudonime ale lui Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008), un autor prolific și extrem de respectat în domeniul literaturii de gen. Sub acest nume, el a creat seria Parker, definind standardul pentru stilul hard-boiled prin realismul crud și lipsa de sentimentalism. Cariera sa remarcabilă a fost recunoscută în 1993 de Mystery Writers of America, care i-a acordat cea mai înaltă distincție, titlul de Grand Master, confirmând influența sa durabilă asupra ficțiunii polițiste mondiale.

Descriere scurtă

Where it all begins: The first book in the action-packed classic crime series starring Parker, the heister who can't be stopped

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 is where it all begin. It opens with Parker's woman shooting him just above the belt and leaving him for dead. She and his partner torch the house, with Parker in it, and take the money he had helped them steal. It all went down just the way they'd planned, except for one thing: Parker didn't die.

From there, our ruthless antihero roars into New York City, seeking revenge on the woman who betrayed him and on the man who took his money, stealing and scamming his way to redemption. The volume that kickstarted Parker's half-century career of larceny—and inspired the classic 1967 motion picture Point Blank, starring Lee Marvin—The Hunter is as thrilling today as it was when it was first published. Pick up your first Parker novel and you won't stop until you're read them all.

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.”

“Writing a couple of years ago . . . John Banville reckoned the Parker novels to be 'among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, any time.' That's high praise from an impeccable source, and Banville is right to single out the technical excellence of these books. The Parkers read with the speed of pulp while unfolding with an almost Nabokovian wit and flair. . . . Original editions of these books, and even later reprints, change hands for scores or hundreds of dollars on the Net, and it’s excellent to have them readily available again—not so much masterpieces of the genre, just masterpieces, period. . . . . The Hunter glitters with seemingly effortless intricacy, being aimed at one episode—a stunner, the kind of moment in fiction that really does have you leaping from your chair and exclaiming in surprise and glee.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“If you’re looking for crime novels with a lot of punch, try the very, very tough novels featuring Parker. . . . The Hunter, The Outfit, The Mourner, and The Man with the Getaway Face are all beautifully paced, tautly composed, and originally published in the early 1960s."

“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 romans 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."

“Parker represents the antihero with dubious morals. Stark’s clever plot structure, moving back and forth in time, is totally engrossing.”--Library Journal

"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.”