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Palahniuk's 10th novel (after Snuff) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project. Narrated by skinny 13-year-old Pgymy, the propulsive plot deconstructs American fixtures, among them church (religion propaganda distribution outlet), spelling bees (forced battle to list English alphabet letters) and TV news reporters (Horde scavenger feast at overflowing anus of world history), before moving on to a Columbine-like shooting spree by a closeted kid who has fallen in love with the teenage terrorist who raped him in a shopping mall bathroom. Decoding Palahniuk's characteristically scathing observations is a challenge, as Pygmy's narrative voice is unbound by rules of grammar or structure (a typical sentence: Host father mount altar so stance beside bin empty of water), but perseverance is its own perverse reward in this singular, comic accomplishment.
Bill Harding finalmente è quasi riuscito
ad ottenere quello che ha sempre sognato dalla vita: il successo e una
moglie fedele che lo ama alla follia. Un tempo Bill era un altro uomo.
Ai tempi dell’università il suo sogno nel cassetto era diventare un
famoso scrittore. Dopo la pubblicazione del suo primo successo
letterario mentre era sposato con Angelica la figlia di un importante
professore universitario, la sua ispirazione era completamente svanita
così come Angelica. L’aveva lasciato per un altro artista molto più
travagliato di quanto Bill potesse essere. Angelica e Bill avevano
anche un piccolo bambino all’epoca. Angelica gli ha lasciato anche
questo dimenticandosi che era la madre. Betsy proveniva da una
famiglia, i Callingham, veramente molto agiata. Erano considerati ricchi
e potenti a quei tempi e si sa il potere è di chi ha i soldi e quindi
il modo per comprarselo. Betsy non è mai stata una ragazza avvenente per
il sesso maschile ma era un bocconcino prelibato per la sua magnifica
dote. Bill e Betsy sono diventati marito e moglie e la donna aveva
accettato il figlio di Bill, Richie, proprio come se fosse il suo
bambino. Richie comunque sapeva e aveva conosciuto la sua vera mamma e
la sua domanda innocente era perché non poteva vivere con il suo papà e
tutte e due le sue mamme. Era tantissimo tempo che Bill non vedeva
Angelica e non sapeva nulla di lei quando, casualmente, la vede in un
taxi. Scambiano due parole e lei gli dice che ora frequenta un altro
artista più giovane di lei di nome Jamie. Mentre parlano Angelica non si
sente molto bene così Bill si presta per accompagnarla dove alloggiava.
L’appartamento era di Jamie e, mentre Bill aiuta Angelica a sistemarsi
sotto le coperte nota dei lividi sul collo. Angelica confessa a Bill
che, a volte soprattutto quando beve un po’ più del necessario, Jamie
diventa un po’ violento.
A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers.
It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast...
When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parker's imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, fans are taken on another trip, to the untamed territories of the West during the 1800s.
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions.
This is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best.
Mi fermai a esaminare la statua di gesso, d'un monaco, appoggiata su di un vecchio tavolo da refettorio, vicina alla porta. Non sapevo che santo fosse... Aveva un braccio rotto... Il braccio sano era teso verso di me come per benedirmi. Indugiai a esaminare la mano del monaco
e, mentre così facevo, sentii un leggero rumore dietro di me. Mi girai,
e vidi qualcosa di metallico che brillava al sole. Prima che potessi
rendermene conto, avevo ricevuto un violento colpo alla tempia. Per
lo spazio d'un attimo vidi chiaramente la figura di un ragazzo,
giovane, bello come un idolo. I suoi occhi, che mi guardavano, erano
senza espressione, fissi, come quelli di un ritratto. Teneva in mano una
rivoltella dalla parte della canna. Sotto il braccio aveva
qualcos'altro. Che cosa?
After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It's the kind of town that doesn't have much in the way of commerce, except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill repute. Hitch takes a job as lookout at Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as protector of the ladies who work the backrooms - as well as a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the O'Malley copper mine.
Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman, tensions continue to mount, so that even the self-assured Hitch is relieved by the arrival in town of his friend Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
When we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It's now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her, his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side. Making their way across New Mexico and Texas, the pair finally discover Allie in a small-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they head north to start over in Brimstone. But things are not the same between Virgil and Allie; too much has happened, and Virgil can't face what Allie did to survive the year they were apart. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has found redemption through the local church and its sanctimonious leader, Brother Percival. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
As sharp and clear as the air over the high desert, proves once again that Robert B. Parker is 'a force of nature' ().
Nella monotona ma non sgradevole zona dei Fen, circa sessanta miglia a
nord-est di Londra, si trova la piccola città di Cambridge. Se avete
tradizioni oxfordiane in famiglia, forse saprete che, durante il
Medioevo, quella città si conquistò una certa fama come seggio di
sapienza. Ma adesso, vi dirà qualcun altro, l'Università di Cambridge si
dedica quasi interamente a vincere regate e alla produzione su vasta
scala di atleti meravigliosi, per quanto un po' tardi di comprendonio.
Se, in qualità di turisti, siete discepoli dell'onnipresente Baedeker,
non saprete nemmeno queste poche notizie. Perché, nella discussione
delle città universitarie inglesi, dopo un lungo e caloroso tributo alle
bellezze di Oxford, la guida liquida sommariamente la sorella meno
ambiziosa con la semplice frase: "Se avete problemi di tempo, potete
rinunciare a vedere Cambridge". E dopo questo modesto preambolo, mi
pare di essere perfettamente giustificato nello stornare l'attenzione
del lettore e nel dirigerla sulla mia persona.
California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and drugs, and new influences, ranging from Richard Nixon to Timothy Leary.
For the Becker brothers, however, the past is always present – and it comes crashing back full force when the body of the lovely and mysterious Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned orange-packing plant. The Beckers and the Vonns have a history, beginning years ago in high school with a rumble between the brothers of each clan.
But boys grow up. Now one Becker brother is a cop on his first homicide case. One's a minister yearning to perform just one miracle. One is a reporter drunk with ambition. And all three are about to collide with the changing world of 1968 as each brother, in his own unique way, tries to find Janelle's killer.
As suspects multiply and secrets are exposed, the three Becker brothers are drawn further into the case, deeper into the past, and closer to danger.
The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse. The details of Ben’s harrowing story – and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross – were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. Alex Cross’s Trial is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel.
From the Edgar Award-winning author of Silent Joe, a new hard-hitting thriller of murder, vengeance, and secret passions that will keep readers spellbound.
Homicide cop Tom McMichael is on the rotation when an 84-year-old city patriarch named Pete Braga is found bludgeoned to death. Not good news, especially since the Irish McMichaels and the Portuguese Bragas share a violent family history dating back three generations. Years ago Braga shot McMichael's grandfather in a dispute over a paycheck; soon thereafter Braga 's son was severely beaten behind a waterfront bar – legend has it that it was an act of revenge by McMichael's father.
McMichael must put aside the old family blood feud, and find the truth about Pete Braga's death. Braga 's beautiful nurse is a suspect – she says she stepped out for some firewood, but key evidence suggests otherwise. The investigation soon expands to include Braga 's business, his family, the Catholic diocese, a multi-million dollar Indian casino, a prostitute, a cop, and, of course, the McMichael family. Cold Pursuit is the novel that T. Jefferson Parker fans have been waiting for.
No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family, but then Sir Basil Moidore's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed. Inspector Monk is ordered to find the killer, and as he gropes through the shadows, he approaches an astonishing solution.
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