Shella
$35.99
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
23 August 1994
Summary
From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil’s spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators.
He is called “Ghost” because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he slays with such reflexive ease that he might be one of the dead. Once he traveled with a woman who was called “Shella” – because those who…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679756811 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679756817 |
| Author: | Andrew Vachss |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 23 August 1994 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 132mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
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Critics Review
“A noir archetype as bare as unfinished furniture. The plot…has been sanded down into a taut monofilament… The prose in Shella is boiled to the bone.” –Village Voice
“Vachss tells his story in an understated shorthand…. He seems bottomlessly knowledgeable…about the depth and variety of human twistedness.” –The New York Times
Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss’s many books include the Burke novels and two previous collections of short stories. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. He died in 2021.
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