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Item Details
| Title:
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NOIR
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| By: |
Robert Coover |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0715641689 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780715641682 |
| Publisher: |
DUCKWORTH OVERLOOK |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2011 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Turns the detective story upside down and inside out. Chinatown meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit. |
| Synopsis: |
With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America's pioneering postmodernists, has taken the classic genre of the noir detective story and turned it inside-out. Here, Coover is at the top of his form, and Noir is a true page-turner - wry, absurd, and desolate. You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husband's killer. If he was killed. Then your client is killed and her body disappears. If it was your client. Your search for clues takes you through all levels of the city, from classy lounges to lowlife dives, from jazz bars to a rich sex kitten's bedroom, from yachts to the morgue. 'The Case of the Vanishing Black Widow' unfolds over five days above ground and three or four in smugglers' tunnels, though flashback and anecdote, and expands time into something much larger. You don't always get the joke, though most people think what's happening to you is pretty funny. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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