Fred Willard (1)
Autore di Down on Ponce
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Opere di Fred Willard
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Istruzione
- Brown University
- Attività lavorative
- newspaper photographer
novelist
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 87
- Popolarità
- #211,168
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 7
- Lingue
- 2
Told from the POV of Sam Fuller, an ex-con living in a trailer on Lake Lanier, there is biting commentary and sardonic wit on Fuller's history and those he meets. He's approached early on by a slick lawyer who wants his wife killed, at which point Fuller goes and warns the wife. Then decides to take a long vacation only to find that events have skyrocketed past what would be a normal murder-for-hire situation.
Joined at a Single-Room-Occupancy hotel on Ponce by a double-amputee, a giant man with limited speech, and a driver for a mortuary service, Fuller decides to look into who is trying to kill him and why. And while some of the wry humor and sardonic wit work, there's also a whole lotta detail of one group tied into another tied into a third that makes it almost but not quite work. It reminds me a lot of the Burke novels by Andrew Vachss, and it is wonderfully refreshing to see modern Atlanta as a setting for novels of all genres.… (altro)