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Tony Parsons (1) (1953–)

Autore di Man and Boy

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31 opere 5,357 membri 123 recensioni 1 preferito

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Tony Parsons is a writer in England. In the 1970's, Parsons was a music journalist for NME, the British equivalent of Rolling Stone. His interviews with some of the biggest bands on punk music made him a cult figure among the youth of England.
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Serie

Opere di Tony Parsons

Man and Boy (1999) 1,859 copie
Man and Wife (2002) 782 copie
Una sola volta (2001) 634 copie
The Family Way (2004) 410 copie
The Murder Bag (2014) 260 copie
Stories We Could Tell (2005) 239 copie
My Favourite Wife (2008) 233 copie
The Slaughter Man (2015) 153 copie
Starting Over (2009) 122 copie
The Hanging Club (2016) 109 copie
Men from the Boys (2010) 85 copie
Die Last (2017) 79 copie
Girl On Fire (2018) 54 copie
Catching the Sun (2012) 48 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Parsons, Tony
Data di nascita
1953-11-06
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
UK
Luogo di nascita
Romford, Essex, England, UK
Luogo di residenza
London, England, UK
Romford, Essex, England, UK
Billericay, Essex, England, UK
Attività lavorative
journalist
novelist
broadcaster
Relazioni
Burchill, Julie (ex-wife)
Organizzazioni
NME
Daily Telegraph
Daily Mirror
Breve biografia
Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist broadcaster and author.

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I am one of those readers who likes to read in bed, and I was that engrossed by The Slaughter Man, that I ended up staying up all night just to finish it.

The book is a fast paced mixture of gory violence and a loving relationship between a father and his daughter. Fast paced, but gives the reader sufficient time to digest what is happening before throwing in the next twist in the tale! The plot evolves in a way that the reader might not expect, and the whole story ends up being more than just a typical murder crime thriller.

It is really well written and set in contemporary London with a new cop hero by the name of Max Wolfe, a nard as nails detective and single father of a young daughter called Scout. The relationship between father and daughter bring another level to the story and is a breath of fresh air, needed at times. There are some fairly graphic violence and I like the excessive goriness tbh! It is also a really great touch adding the explanations of the science behind the gruesome stuff. It's good to have an explanation as to why most gun shot wounds to the gut are fatal for example.

A wealthy family are murdered on New Year's Eve and their youngest son vanishes. Max has to find the killer and hopefully locate the missing boy.

The crime resembles one which happened years ago, for which a man was imprisoned and now has been released.

Wolfe and the team have to work out whether the same man could be responsible for these deaths.

It seems Max has miraculous healing powers as he is stabbed, buried, ripped apart, knocked out and drugged and still has only one overnight hospital stay. There was definitely some disbelief that needed suspending throughout! He makes James Bond seem soft and that man should be dead years ago! But, I loved this guy long may he continue! :-)

I'd worked out quite early on "who done it" but what I hadn't worked out was why and there were plenty of surprises.

I will be looking forward to the next book from Tony Parsons and eagerly awaiting the return of Max Wolfe!

Highly Recommended Reading!
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DebTat2 | 8 altre recensioni | Oct 13, 2023 |
This novel about babies and is set mainly in a London, a city where everyone apparently goes through the motions of having jobs, relationships and going on holiday, but in reality are only really interested in babies, spending all their time either thinking or talking about babies even if they've no interested in actually having one.

The book centres around three sisters whose mother walked out on them when they were young girls; each seemingly have a baby obsession of one form or other. Jessica, is desperate to get pregnant, but can't. Megan, in her last year as a trainee doctor, isn't "ready" to have a baby, but gets pregnant after a one-night stand. She contemplates having an abortion but as the foetus develops, so does her maternal instinct. Cat, the eldest sister, is happy with her life enjoying her job and has no desire to be a mother at all. But Parsons doesn't really believe that any real woman could possibly think that way. He seems to despise career women who have no maternal instinct and Cat is suddenly convinced that she's incomplete without one: "Without children all you had was now, and reminders of the past."

The men are obsessed about babies as well. Rather than going down the pub or at a football match they seem to spend their days talking about women wanting babies, about the women's body-clocks; "Their bodies were in extra time, their eggs were still hopeful of a penalty shoot-out." or about being fathers. Some of their dialogue is quite laddish as exampled above whilst some of it is more reflective " what would he tell his daughter about men? How could he prepare her for their lies, their tricks, and their black hearts? Our black hearts."

Thankfully in Parsons's world everything turns all right in the end. Jessica and Cat fall pregnant against all the odds, Megan successfully completes her training and is able to move from the vicious NHS to genteel private practice, and as an extra reward for the sisters their faithful father finds new love whilst the absconding mother has MS and her latter years will rapidly go down the drain.

I must confess that this is my first book by the author and whilst there were a few parts that made me smile, when I finished it I was left with absolutely no desire to read another book that featured a pregnancy for quite a while.
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PilgrimJess | 9 altre recensioni | Jun 23, 2023 |
Toni Parsons vraća se temi koja ga je učinila slavnim: ovo je priča o ljubavi, životu i međuljudskim odnosima.

Džordž Bejli dobija dar o kome svi mi sanjamo – priliku da ponovo živi svoj život. Posle srčanog udara, Džordžu presađuju srce devetnaestogodišnjaka – i sve se odjednom menja! On je drug svoje maloletne dece, a ne strogi ministar policije koji kontroliše svaki njihov pokret. Vodi ljubav sa svojom ženom celu noć, a ne od ponoći do otprilike dvanaest i pet. Želi i da promeni svet – čim ga prođe mamurluk. Ali Džordž Bejli otkriva da biti ponovo mlad nije baš toliko zabavno – i više od svega na svetu želi svoj stari život nazad.

„Zabavno, ozbiljno, nežno i iskreno. Toni Parsons piše o istinskim dilemama savremenog života.“ Sunday Express

„Toni Parsons je majstor gorkoslatke ljubavne priče.“ Red

„Nezaboravno i dirljivo... Niko ne ume da izvuče više iskrenih osećanja iz prizora od Tonija Parsonsa.“ Spectator

„Parsons je stvorio važnu i snažnu knjigu. Izuzetan uspeh!“ Mirror
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vanjus | 3 altre recensioni | Jun 12, 2023 |
Izuzetna priča o seksu, ljubavnim borbama i drugim suprugama, iz pera autora svetskog bestselera Čovek i dečak.

Uspešni mladi londonski advokat Bil Holden i njegova žena Beka sele se s četvorogodišnjom kćerkicom u Šangaj. To je grad u usponu, novo središte zlatne groznice, grad prilika i iskušenja, gde se burno stvara bogatstvo i raspadaju brakovi. Bilova advokatska firma smešta porodicu Holden u Rajsko naselje – raskošan stambeni blok pun „drugih supruga“ – prelepih devojaka koje izdržavaju bogati tuđi muževi, kakva je i Ðinđin Li, bivša nastavnica zaljubljena u ukrštene reči i klizaljke. Posle jednog strašnog događaja Beka i Holi vraćaju se u London – a Bil i Ðinđin se zbližavaju. Bil želi da bude bolji čovek od milionera koji izdržava Ðinđin Li kao drugu suprugu. Bolji od svakog muškarca koji vara svoju ženu. Beka je njegov najbolji prijatelj. Ali na kraju, može li on Ðinđin dati nešto drugačije – može li joj pružiti ljubav koju zaslužuje? I može li istovremeno voleti i svoju ženu?

Moja omiljena supruga je priča o muškarcu i ženi našeg doba, o njihovim borbama, radostima i skrivenim čežnjama. Iznad svega, to je knjiga o tome gde prestaju seks, pustolovina i opsesije, a počinje istinska ljubav.
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vanjus | 6 altre recensioni | Jun 12, 2023 |

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