ISBN: 9780544028586

"Vertigo "meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker calls "one of the smartest, most stylish writers I've ever come across." Sam Kornberg… Mehr…

"Vertigo "meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker calls "one of the smartest, most stylish writers I've ever come across." Sam Kornberg is a failed novelist living in L.A. with a collapsing marriage. Desperate for work, he becomes the assistant to a portly, housebound detective named Solar Lonsky. His assignment to track a mysterious woman is the trigger for a tense, smart, and often screamingly funny story involving sexy doppelgangers, insane asylums, south-of-the-border shootouts, mistaken identities, video-store-geekery, and the death of the novel. It's as if Tarantino had remade "Vertigo" after bingeing on Nero Wolfe novels."Mystery Girl" is both an entertaining thriller and a cunning inquiry into art, style, and deception, by a writer who Karen Thompson Walker, author of "The Age of Miracles," has hailed as "one of the smartest, most stylish writers I've ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit with moments of real transcendent beauty." Media ><

ISBN: 9780544028586

"Vertigo "meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker calls "one of the smartest, most stylish writers I've ever come across." Sam Kornberg… Mehr…

"Vertigo "meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker calls "one of the smartest, most stylish writers I've ever come across." Sam Kornberg is a failed novelist living in L.A. with a collapsing marriage. Desperate for work, he becomes the assistant to a portly, housebound detective named Solar Lonsky. His assignment to track a mysterious woman is the trigger for a tense, smart, and often screamingly funny story involving sexy doppelgangers, insane asylums, south-of-the-border shootouts, mistaken identities, video-store-geekery, and the death of the novel. It's as if Tarantino had remade "Vertigo" after bingeing on Nero Wolfe novels."Mystery Girl" is both an entertaining thriller and a cunning inquiry into art, style, and deception, by a writer who Karen Thompson Walker, author of "The Age of Miracles," has hailed as "one of the smartest, most stylish writers I've ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit with moments of real transcendent beauty." Media ><

2013, ISBN: 0544028589

[EAN: 9780544028586], [PU: New Harvest], Dust jacket has slight shelf wear. Unmarked, pages clean & bright, binding tight., Books