Pagina principaleGruppiConversazioniAltroStatistiche
Cerca nel Sito
Questo sito utilizza i cookies per fornire i nostri servizi, per migliorare le prestazioni, per analisi, e (per gli utenti che accedono senza fare login) per la pubblicità. Usando LibraryThing confermi di aver letto e capito le nostre condizioni di servizio e la politica sulla privacy. Il tuo uso del sito e dei servizi è soggetto a tali politiche e condizioni.

Risultati da Google Ricerca Libri

Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.

Sto caricando le informazioni...

Mr White's Confession (1998)

di Robert Clark

UtentiRecensioniPopolaritàMedia votiCitazioni
3283078,726 (3.31)64
Edgar® Award Winner for Best Novel and Winnerof the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year "As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have been written by Dashiell Hammett or James Crumley--at their best."--Greil Marcus,Esquire St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. A grisly discovery is made. On a hillside, the dead body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found, and an investigation opens. Assigned to the case is Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner, a man troubled and alone after his wife's recent death, a man with his own demons. He soon narrows his sights on Herbert White, an eccentric recluse and hobby photographer with a fondness for snapping suggestive photographs of the dime-a-dance girls. As Horner discovers, White is alsoa man with no memory, who must record his life in detailed journal entries and scrapbooks. For every interrogation Horner has, Herbert White has few answers, pushing the murder investigation into unknown territory and illuminating the complex relationship between truth and fiction, past and present, faith and memory.… (altro)
Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi le 64 citazioni

Murder Mystery, 1920's St. Paul, man w/ mental disability
  JohnLavik | Mar 29, 2020 |
Where I found this book:
In a neighborhood "free little library" book box.
What I thought of this book:
What a fantastic, enthralling read that kept my interest piqued from the first page to the last. I must find out about other works this author has written! No wonder this book was an award winner - deep, engaging, twisting and turning - a satisfying read. Five stars. ( )
  BeansandReads | Nov 7, 2019 |
This was interesting...mainly delving into the corruption of the police in the 1940s era and it develops a story of murder and intelligence both. I think it's well crafted with a likable victim who has a hidden eloquence despite his limited life experience in many areas. At the same time, it's not the kind of novel that is life changing..just an enjoyable read overall. I especially loved the parts about photography and the protagonist is a very likable photographer...you can't help feeling sorry for what befalls him. He is gentle, sad and beautiful and throughout time those type of humans have been drastically misused and under-appreciated.

Truly, this novel is about injustice and, though times have changed quite a bit, I'm sure that there are those still mistreated and wrongly imprisoned throughout all of the states in our country...

This is also a work of fiction and yet one can see how it could easily happen during this or any time since.


pg. 23 "I mixed chemicals for the darkroom in the kitchen in order to prepare the last roll I took of Ruby from The Aragon...working with the lights off-or rather with only the red safe light on-is a strange sensation, like what I imagine being deep underwater must be like. And I must say I have imagined that this is what death must be like., or the passage into death, a kind of blind trudge into the dark."

pg 26 "Maybe the future world is wishing for is a rather dangerous time, and that is part of the hollowness one feels."

pg 83 "I always think Sunday's sort of the saddest day...like the world's empty. Like nobody's home."

pg. 323 "Maybe I was only looking at the world. It was just a photograph. But perhaps now in my poverty, in my solitude, perhaps I'm in the world truly, at last. I can feel it in my flesh. I can see it and smell it and I have no other course but to love it." ( )
  kirstiecat | Mar 31, 2013 |
I picked this book up because it was an Edgar Award winner. I enjoyed its original format, its unusual story line, and its quirky characters. That said, the book was occasionally annoying--the author's metaphors, for example, became cloying after awhile because there were so many of them, and every now and again the plot line just didn't work. ( )
  sallysvenson | Mar 13, 2012 |
Two dance hall girls are murdered in the Minneapolis of the late 1930s, and a slightly retarded man is falsely accused of the crimes. The story alternates between the diary entries of the suspect, Mr. White, and the life of the police detective charged with solving the crime. This contemporary mystery set in the noir world of the past is an engaging story that leaves the reader with a bittersweet feeling. ( )
  sturlington | Feb 24, 2012 |
nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.
Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.
Titolo canonico
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Titolo originale
Titoli alternativi
Data della prima edizione
Personaggi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Luoghi significativi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Eventi significativi
Film correlati
Epigrafe
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
ecce quantum spatiatus sum in memoria mea quaerens te domine et non te inveni extra eam-neque enim aliquid de to invenio quad non meminissem ex quo didici te-nam ex quo didiici te, non sum oblitus tui-ubi enim inveni veritatem ibi inveni deum meum ipsam veritatem quam exc quo didici non sum oblitus-itaque ex quo te didici manes in memoria mea et illic te invenio cum reminiscor tui et delector in te-hae sunt sanctae deliciae meae quas donasti mihi misericordia tua respiciens paupertatem meam

-Saint Augustine, Confessions, X:xxiv
Dedica
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
for Andrew Griggs Clark
Incipit
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
The first time Wesley Horner saw him was at the White Castle near Seven Corners, where Wesley was drinking coffee with his partner.
Citazioni
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
World starts to seem like a quarry with something under every rock.
Ultime parole
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
(Click per vedere. Attenzione: può contenere anticipazioni.)
Nota di disambiguazione
Redattore editoriale
Elogi
Lingua originale
DDC/MDS Canonico
LCC canonico

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese

Nessuno

Edgar® Award Winner for Best Novel and Winnerof the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year "As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have been written by Dashiell Hammett or James Crumley--at their best."--Greil Marcus,Esquire St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. A grisly discovery is made. On a hillside, the dead body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found, and an investigation opens. Assigned to the case is Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner, a man troubled and alone after his wife's recent death, a man with his own demons. He soon narrows his sights on Herbert White, an eccentric recluse and hobby photographer with a fondness for snapping suggestive photographs of the dime-a-dance girls. As Horner discovers, White is alsoa man with no memory, who must record his life in detailed journal entries and scrapbooks. For every interrogation Horner has, Herbert White has few answers, pushing the murder investigation into unknown territory and illuminating the complex relationship between truth and fiction, past and present, faith and memory.

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

Descrizione del libro
Riassunto haiku

Già recensito in anteprima su LibraryThing

Il libro di Robert Clark Mr. White's Confession è stato disponibile in LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

Discussioni correnti

Nessuno

Copertine popolari

Link rapidi

Voto

Media: (3.31)
0.5 2
1 3
1.5
2 8
2.5 2
3 31
3.5 9
4 17
4.5 3
5 10

Sei tu?

Diventa un autore di LibraryThing.

 

A proposito di | Contatto | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Condizioni d'uso | Guida/FAQ | Blog | Negozio | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteche di personaggi celebri | Recensori in anteprima | Informazioni generali | 203,252,550 libri! | Barra superiore: Sempre visibile