What do Michael Ondaatje, Manning Marable and Stephen King have in common? They’re all in the running for 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
Schlagwort-Archive: Los Angeles Times
Rezension: Donald Ray Pollock: »The devil all the time«
Pollock’s first novel, »The Devil All the Time«, should cement his reputation as a significant voice in American fiction. The novel deftly shifts perspectives among small-town residents in Ohio and West Virginia, including two killers.
Rezension: Thomas Peele: »Killing the Messenger«
On a morning in August 2007, a slender masked man ran up to Chauncey Bailey on an Oakland sidewalk and fired two shotgun blasts at the journalist. The first slug tore through Bailey from the side, at shoulder level, shredding the tops of his lungs.
Kolumne: Killing Spree
This time Marilyn Stasio discusses the New Crime novels »What It Was«, by George Pelecanos, »Silence« by Jan Costin Wagner, »Vulture Peak« by John Burdett and »The Invisible Ones« by Stef Penney.
Artikel: Charles Dickens takes pride of place at book fair
The 45th Annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena marks Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday on February 7th with a rare first edition of his novel »David Copperfield«.
Rezension: Tom Rob Smith: »Agent 6«
The author offers the most ambitious and final book in his trilogy, covering the USSR during the Cold War and its misadventures in Afghanistan. Four years ago, »Child 44«, Smith’s debut thriller set in Stalinist Russia, was a literary sensation.
Rezensionen: Elmore Leonard: »Raylan«, T. Jefferson Parker: »The Jaguar«
Leonard and Parker craft atmospheric, plot-driven mysteries with colorful characters. The new year is a happier one already for aficionados of America’s top crime novelists. That is because a couple of our most creative writers are back and in good form.
Rezension: Sara Paretsky: »Breakdown«
One of the many pleasures of Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski novels is that the sharp-tongued, short-tempered detective seems to be following clues that lead not just to the heart of whatever mystery is at hand, but also into the red-hot center of the zeitgeist itself.
Rezension: P. D. James: »Death Comes to Pemberley«
P.D. James brings a murder mystery into Jane Austen’s »Pride and Prejudice« territory - Death comes to Pemberley, one of the great houses in Derbyshire, and a most unwelcome guest it is.
Rezension: Michael Hastings: »The Operators«
Michael Hastings’ »The Operators« provides a troubling, first-person narrative of the U.S. military’s fight in Afghanistan. Those readers who believe the Afghan war is misguided and futile will enjoy it. Those who don’t may find food for thought
Interview: Michael Sims
After you return home this weekend from watching director Guy Ritchie’s »Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows«, you might consider the fine group of sleuths assembled by editor Michael Sims.
Rezension: John Curran: »Agatha Christie: An Autobiography«
Last summer, while browsing in a used bookstore in San Luis Obispo, I discovered something I thought no longer existed: an Agatha Christie novel I had not read. I quickly bought it, but I promised myself I would take my time. Instead, I finished it the next day.
Rezension: Stephen King: »11/22/63«
A man goes back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It’s ultimately a misguided effort in story and writing. Stephen King opens his novel »11/22/63« with an epigraph from Norman Mailer’s »Oswald’s Tale.«
Rezension: Lee Child: »The Affair«
Fist-flying crime-solver Jack Reacher is back, this time in a tale that looks at once backward and forward while solving a murder near a military base. So, I used to have a rural fantasy. Then I started reading the Jack Reacher novels.
Rezension: Patrick Carman: »Dark Eden«
Is it just a book? A film? An audio book? »Dark Eden« is all three! Patrick Carman’s »Dark Eden« is a multimedia offering, but even in its simple print form it is a compelling read about seven terrified teens in a backwoods adventure.