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Sto caricando le informazioni... Christine Falls: A Novel (edizione 2008)di Benjamin Black
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This noir story was completely absorbing like books I read as a kid. Tale of a hard-drinking Irish loner, a pathologist who becomes the sleuth to solve a murder and a mystery, all set in foggy 1950's Dublin. The writing, the setting, the suspense were beautifully crafted. ( ) Book 1 of 7 book series - Quirke is a middle age,boozing pathologist working in the hospital morgue when he starts to unravels a mystery of a dead young girl, a missing baby and how in the world is his family connected to all of this - this mystery which escalates into murder. Along the way Quirke comes to terms of his actions to acknowledge the child he let go when his wife died. Its a twisted story that Quirke appears to be the one and only willing to set the record straight. No matter the concenquences. Actually a 3.5 star. I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I liked the main character and I liked the mystery but the pacing of the book was a little slow for me. Black likes words and uses them well but I sometimes felt like he was trying to build mood at the cost of the plotting. The setting was wonderful though and I think there was enough there that I might try book 2. If you like faster paced mysteries this book will not be for you., A bleak story of corruption involving the export of babies of unwed mothers to the US where they will be adopted and raised to become nuns and priests. Quirke, a pathologist, is investigating the death of a young mother after discovering records being falsified by his brother-in-law. An unpleasant, dark story told in Black's elegant yet melancholy style.
In his decision to write a straightforward, no-nonsense thriller about transatlantic baby-smuggling and the Catholic Church, John Banville, a veritable emperor of baroque prose, has not so much taken a vow of poverty as put in a sly bid to extend and reinforce his stylistic dominion. ... Those familiar with Banville will have expected nothing less; the neophyte, however, who picks up this racy little number anticipating nothing more than a night of brisk casual thrills may soon be surprised to find himself in the grips of a literary passion he had not gambled on. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse-and concealing the cause ofdeath.   It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious-and very well-guarded-secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.   Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black's debut marks him as a true master of the form. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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