The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy - ISBN: 9780349106458
Paperback
A seductive map leads to an Australian nightmare with no escape.

The Dead Heart

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    3 July 1995

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Summary

“That dumbshit map. I’d been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here … That map had been a serious mistake.”

The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349106458
ISBN-10:0349106452
Author:Douglas Kennedy
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:3 July 1995
Weight:150g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 14mm
Series:Abacus
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Pulls off that most difficult feat of being hilariously funny and frightening at the same time - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Fluent and entertaining … a highly accomplished debut… there is an art to telling shaggy-dog stories well, with the right balance of lightness and suspense, and Kennedy shows himself a master of it. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

His story-telling is so deft, and the build-up so detailed and convincing, that the denouement proves to be heart-thumpingly effective - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

A comic triumph - TIME OUT

About The Author

Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy is the author of THE BIG PICTURE, THE JOB and three travel books, BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS, IN GOD’S COUNTRY and CHASING MAMMON. Born in New York City in 1955, he lives in London with his wife and two children.

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