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Galveston : A Novel by Nic Pizzolatto (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-101439166668
ISBN-139781439166666
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038493807
Product Key Features
Book TitleGalveston : a Novel
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicThrillers / Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Crime, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorNic Pizzolatto
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.1 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Reviews" Galveston is a haunting and haunted tale, beautifully rendered, an uncommonly well written thriller moving in its descriptions of people struggling to escape the gravity of the past amid a ruinous landscape." -- Kem Nunn, author of Tijuana Straights, "Nic Pizzolatto's beautiful, lucid prose seems to flow like water or like music. He knows how to write in the marrow of his bones. This will be the first of many brilliant books. Hooray for talent, that rare and lovely gift of the gods." -- Ellen Gilchrist, author of Victory Over Japan and Nora Jane, "An often incandescent fever dream of low-rent, unbearable beauty.... Galveston, in its authenticity and fearless humanism, recalls only the finest examples of the form." - New York Times Book Review, "These brilliant, if often bleak, stories offer a world of choices and realities. You want to stay awhile with these characters-some of them won't look you in the eye, but follow that sidelong glance; there will be something worth seeing there, something unforgettable." -- Times-Picayune, "As Pizzolatto switches smoothly between past to present, he vividly captures Galveston in all its deperate vulnerability as it faces the approach of Hurricane Ike." - Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Nic Pizzolatto is one of the most exciting young writes to come along in ages. His collection is first-rate, and Pizzolatto is going to be wowing us for a long, long time to come." -- Steve Yarborough, author of The Oxygen Man and Prisoners of War, "[A] taut first novel suffused with a strong noir sensibility...a fine crime-fiction debut." - Booklist, "The emotional honesty and power of the novel recall nothing of the scores of approximated noirs we've been subjected to over the past couple of decades, both on the page and on the screen. Instead, Galveston , in its authenticity and fearless humanism, recalls only the finest examples of the form." - New York Times Book Review, "An often incandescent fever dream of low-rent, unbearable beauty.... Galveston, in its authenticity and fearless humanism, recalls only the finest examples of the form." - New York Times Book Review, "Pizzolatto, like the great Richard Ford...expresses [his character's] dissatisfaction in precise language, drawing readers into perfectly realized, frequently unconventional scenarios." -- Booklist, " Galveston is an assured debut full of hard truths, a throwback novel that ends up shouldering the noir genre forward." -- Chuck Hogan, author of Devils in Exile and Prince of Thieves
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisFrom the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective , comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston. On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known "without affection" to members of the boss's crew as "Big Country" on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Which it is. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, which is to say that after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas--an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl's name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy--and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston's country-western bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. Any chance that they will find safety there is soon lost. Rocky is a girl with quite a story to tell, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come. Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down. Constructed with maximum tension and haunting aftereffect, written in darkly beautiful prose, Galveston announces the arrival of a major new literary talent.
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