The Big Clock
$32.87
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2011
Summary
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, unscrupulous journalist working for tyrannical Earl Janoth’s media empire. And he’s involved with the wrong woman - his boss’s mistress, Pauline Delos. One day, as Stroud escorts Pauline home, he spies his boss returning from a trip. The next day, Pauline is found dead in her apartment.
Janoth knows someone saw him enter Pauline’s apartment on the night of the murder; he knows it must have been the man Pauline was seeing on the side; bu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781409121152 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1409121151 |
| Author: | Kenneth Fearing |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Yellowbacks |
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‘You’ll be hard pushed to find a better noir thriller.’
THE BIG CLOCK has it - the deadpan, make-believe sinister quality, and the terse, preposterous fancy. It is, besides, a thriller with a unique plot * TIME *If you enjoy top-drawer detective fiction…we can recommend this one with no reservations whatsoever * NEW YORK TIMES *So rare a compound of irony, satire, and icy-fingered narrative * WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW *[A] brilliant study in noir…deservedly a classic in its depiction of the corporate man at his most basic and disloyal * BOSTON GLOBE AND MAIL *A master of the tour de force * WASHINGTON POST *A brilliantly dark and menacing tale. * CATHOLIC HERALD *You’ll be hard pushed to find a better noir thriller. * BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH *
About The Author
Kenneth Fearing
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Voted wittiest boy and class pessimist in high school, he moved to New York City after graduating from the University of Wisconsin. He published several well-received volumes of poetry in addition to his books. THE BIG CLOCK is his most famous novel and was filmed twice, first in 1948 and then again in 1987.
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