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City of Brick and Shadow by Tim Wirkus (2014, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAdams Media Corporation

ISBN-101440582769

ISBN-139781440582769

eBay Product ID (ePID)201614060

Product Key Features

Book TitleCity of Brick and Shadow

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicReligious, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, General, Mystery & Detective / General

Publication Year2014

GenreFiction

AuthorTim Wirkus

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-026402

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"The narrative flows simply...interspersed with the fascinating...folklore describing The Argentine's reign in Vila Barbosa.... An absorbing mental exercise...for the most jaded armchair detectives...guaranteed to spark delicious book-group debates." -- Booklist , Starred Review "Tim Wirkus' City of Brick and Shadow is a brilliant debut novel.... Wirkus...emerges here as a formidable talent--the kind of writer who...combines wicked verbal felicity with an amused eye for human behavior." --The Daily Pilot "Deftly written, smoothly complex, exceptionally well crafted...solidly entertaining.... .Establishes Tim Wirkus as a novelist of exceptional talent and remarkable storytelling skills. Very highly recommended for personal reading lists and community library collections." -- Midwest Book Review "[This] captivating tale is wonderfully written, with plenty of familiar missionary banter mingled with the young men's relentless and at times dangerous quest for answers." --UtahValley360, "The narrative flows simply...interspersed with the fascinating...folklore describing The Argentine's reign in Vila Barbosa.... An absorbing mental exercise...for the most jaded armchair detectives...guaranteed to spark delicious book-group debates." -- Booklist , Starred Review

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisTim Wirkus' City of Brick and Shadow is a fantastically fun ride, recasting the classic buddy-cop dynamic in a pair of hapless young missionaries; a gripping and unconventional mystery along the lines of The Yiddish Policemen's Union or Motherless Brooklyn., "Intimate, mysterious, magical...as accomplished and compelling as anything I've read in recent years." -- T.C. Boyle , award-winning author of The Harder They Come "Beautifully conceived and beautifully written...rendered with a strong, confident voice that is so rare in a first novel." -- Percival Everett , award-winning author of Assumption Already struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When the neighborhood's corrupt police force shows no interest, Elder Toronto and Elder Schwartz decide to investigate Marco Aurelio's disappearance themselves. Breaking mission rule after mission rule, the elders doggedly pursue any clues that might lead them to their friend. As they interview the people who knew him--his short-tempered, bodybuilding brother; his gun-toting ex-wife; his mercurial former business partner--a tangled portrait emerges of an enigmatic con artist in over his head. At the edges of the investigation lurks a shadowy, mythical figure known only as the Argentine, a man who poses an increasingly dire threat to the two young missionaries as they plunge recklessly forward. Tim Wirkus' City of Brick and Shadow is a fantastically fun ride, recasting the classic buddy-cop dynamic in a pair of hapless young missionaries; a gripping and unconventional mystery along the lines of The Yiddish Policemen's Union or Motherless Brooklyn .

LC Classification NumberPS3623.I754C58 2014