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Stark in the Bronx - A Detective Novel (Paperback) Loot Price: R451
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Stark in the Bronx - A Detective Novel (Paperback): Saul Landau

Stark in the Bronx - A Detective Novel (Paperback)

Saul Landau

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Stark is an endangered species. He's the last Jewish private detective in the south Bronx and his days may be numbered. It's the summer of 1965: the Yankees are making another pennant run, the war in Vietnam is heating up, hemlines are rising and the old neighborhood is changing. These days it's easier to stumble on a mugging than to find a good bagel. Stark is not a tough guy. In the trade, he's what's known as a peeper. His business is adultery and his weapon is a camera with a long lens not a snub-nose revolver. But Stark's life is beginning to unravel. His wife left him, his secretary hates him, his mother wants to mother him, he can't shake his shrink's voice from his head and he's got a strange pain in his chest. Then things go from bad to worse. He witnesses a shocking murder and suddenly Stark goes from being the hunter to the hunted, as he races through a decaying world of bookies, transvestites, loan sharks, slum lords and thugs for hire. "Stark in the Bronx" is the dazzling first novel by acclaimed historian Saul Landau. A kind of comic noir, Landau's atmospheric novel is both thrilling and hilarious: imagine the "Maltese Falcon" narrated by Woody Allen. Praise for Saul Landau and Stark: "Saul Landau, like the narrator of 'The Great Gatsby, marvels at how the rich so joyously make messes secure in the knowledge that others will clean up. But what if, one day, they don't?" -- Gore Vidal "You'll believe him, laugh with him, weep and get off your ass." -- John Berger, author "Ways of Seeing"

General

Imprint: Counterpunch
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2013
First published: August 2013
Authors: Saul Landau
Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 978-0-9897637-0-7
Categories: Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN: 0-9897637-0-6
Barcode: 9780989763707

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