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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Impressively imagined and rendered. In an all too believable future version of NYC, an assassin becomes entangled in the lives of an evangelist, who has a scheme to create heaven on earth, and his runaway daughter. The story is so compelling that it is only on reflection, after finishing it, that the plot weaknesses appear and you begin to ask questions about the ultimate motivations of the characters. ( ) Well, that was different, sort of Leon meets William Gibson. Set in a dystopian near future, Spademan the hitman, who will target men and women because he doesn't discriminate but not kids, is hired to find and kill the runaway daughter of VR evangelist but becomes her bodyguard when he discovers she is pregnant. I was intrigued to start with, and enjoyed the deadpan narration and world-building, but didn't really care about any of the characters. Short and savage, though!
Ever since cyberpunk in the 1980s, science fiction has been only too ready to slap on the noir paint. Down these mean streets a man must walk, and if the streets are located (as here) in a half-deserted future New York where Times Square has been dirty-bombed and climate catastrophe has sunk the outskirts, then so much the meaner –and better. Adam Sternbergh's debut is as lean and muscular a noir thriller as I have read in a long while: swift, structured around a series of expertly timed twists and shocks, very hard to put down. The style is what used to be called "Chandleresque", before a generation started using that word to mean "quippy, like that character from Friends" – tough-guy brevity leavened with hard-edged wit. Dialogue predominates. Paragraphs are short. The violence is frequent and nasty. Appartiene alle SerieSpademan (1) Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiScience Fiction Book Club (1384135) Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes calls ??sharp as a paper-cut? about a garbage man turned kill-for-hire. Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self. Now he??s a hitman. In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to ??tap in? to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets. When his latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist, he must navigate between these two worlds??the wasteland reality and the slick fantasy??to finish his job, clear his conscience, and make sure he??s not the one who Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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