Galveston
From the creator of True Detective
$33.76
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2014
Summary
‘Recalls only the finest examples of the form’ Dennis Lehane
‘The elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story makes it unforgettable’ Daily Mail
From the creator of the hit HBO series TRUE DETECTIVE comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere.
Roy Cady is by his own admission ‘a bad man’. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he’s a walking time-bomb o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751557053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751557056 |
| Author: | Nic Pizzolatto |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
An often incandescent fever dream of low-rent, unbearable beauty … “Galveston,” in its authenticity and fearless humanism, recalls only the finest examples of the form
‘A good old Southern gothic treat of a road trip through Texas and Louisiana. Think James Lee Burke meets Midnight In The Garden of Good And Evil with shades of Paris, Texas’ - The Pool
An often incandescent fever dream of low-rent, unbearable beauty … Galveston, in its authenticity and fearless humanism, recalls only the finest examples of the form - The New York TimesThere are resonances of the great James Lee Burke in the elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story that makes it unforgettable - Daily MailAbout The Author
Nic Pizzolatto
Nic Pizzolatto is the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, for which he is creator, executive producer, and sole writer. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Best American Mystery Stories and several other publications. His work has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and his story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea was named by Poets & Writer’s Magazine as one of the top five fiction debuts of the year.
His first novel, Galveston, was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble 2010 Discover Award and the Edgar Award for best first novel; it won the Spur Award, and received the Prix de Premier Roman L’Etranger for best first novel (foreign) from the French Academy. He has taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, The University of Chicago, and DePauw University.
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