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From "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and "principal
heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West" ("The
Washington Post")--an intense psychological suspense novel about a
San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with
a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, whose
pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective.
A dark tale involving psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession,
fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence--"Chance"
is set amid the back streets of California's Bay Area, far from the
cleansing breezes of the ocean. Dr. Eldon Chance, a
neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed for spectacular ruin. Into Dr.
Chance's blighted life walks Jaclyn Blackstone, the abused,
attractive wife of an Oakland homicide detective, a violent and
jealous man. Jaclyn appears to be suffering from a dissociative
identity disorder. In time, Chance will fall into bed with her--or
is it with her alter ego, the voracious and volatile Jackie Black?
The not-so-good doctor, despite his professional training, isn't
quite sure--and thereby hangs his fascination with her. Meanwhile,
Chance also meets a young man named D, a self-styled, streetwise
philosopher skilled in the art of the blade. It is around this trio
of unique and dangerous individuals that long guarded secrets begin
to unravel, obsessions grow, and the doctor's carefully arranged
life comes to the brink of implosion.
Amid San Francisco's fluid, ever-shifting fog, in the cool, gray
city of love, Dr. Chance will at last be forced to live up to his
name. "Chance" is a twisted, harrowing, and impossible-to-put-down
head trip through the fun house of fate, mesmerizing until the very
last page.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A reissue of the classic novel that inspired the movie "Point
Break "and pioneered a genre.
People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the
ultimate highs, and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look
for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered
her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blonds, Ike's
search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed
Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious
seducers. He looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift
toward pointless violence, joyless vacations, and highs you may
never come down from . . . and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone
bad. And if he's not careful, his is a journey from which he will
never return.
Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot - the premier mysto
surf haunt, the stuff of rumour and legend. The rumours say you
must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals
and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet
break a mile from shore. For down-and-out photographer Jack
Fletcher, the chance to shoot these waves in the company of surfing
legend Drew Harmon offers the promise of new beginnings. But Drew
is not alone in the northern reaches of the state. His young wife,
Kendra, lives there with him. Obsessed with the unsolved murder of
a local girl, Kendra has embarked upon a quest of her own, a search
for truth - however dark that truth may prove to be. In this
desolate wasteland the search for the perfect wave becomes a quest
for survival, as events lead inevitably to their final, tragic
climax.
From Kem Nunn, the National Book Award-nominated author of Tapping
the Source and The Dogs of Winter, comes an exquisitely written
tale of loss and redemption. Nunn renders the dangerous beaches and
waters of California's borderland as only the critically acclaimed
poet laureate of surf noir can, and Tijuana Straits confirms his
reputation as a master of suspense and a novelist of the first
rank. When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con,
meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the
ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean
-- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves as the
Tijuana Straits. Magdalena has barely survived an attack that
forced her to flee Tijuana, and Fahey takes her in. That he is
willing to do so runs contrary to his every instinct, for Fahey is
done with the world, seeking little more than solitude from this
all-but-forgotten corner of the Golden State. Nor is Fahey a
stranger to the lawless ways of the border. He worries that in
sheltering this woman he may not only be inviting further
entanglements but may be placing them both at risk. In this, he is
not wrong. An environmental activist, Magdalena has become engaged
in the struggle for the health and rights of the thousands of
peasants streaming from Mexico's enervated heartland to work in the
maquilladoras -- the foreign-owned factories that line her
country's border, polluting its air and fouling its rivers. It is a
risky contest. Danger can come from many directions, from
government officials paid to preserve the status quo to thugs hired
to intimidate reformers. As Magdalena and Fahey become closer,
Magdalena tries to discover who is out to get her, attempting to
reconstruct the events that delivered her, battered and confused,
into Fahey's strange yet oddly seductive world. She examines every
lead, never guessing the truth. For into this no-man's-land between
two countries comes a trio of killers led by Armando Santoya, a man
beset by personal tragedy, an aberration born of the very
conditions Magdalena has dedicated her life to fight against, yet
who in the throes of his own drug-fueled confusions has marked her
for death. And so will Fahey be put to the test, in a final duel on
the beaches of his Tijuana Straits.
Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot--the premier mysto
surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must
cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and
shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet break a
mile from shore. For down-and-out photographer Jack Fletcher, the
chance to shoot these waves in the company of surfing legend Drew
Harmon offers the promise of new beginnings. But Drew is not alone
in the northern reaches of the state. His young wife, Kendra, lives
there with him. Obsessed with the unsolved murder of a local girl,
Kendra has embarked upon a quest of her own, a search for
truth--however dark that truth may prove to be. The Dogs of Winter
is a portrait of two men and an appealing yet troubled young woman
set against an unforgettable background of stark and violent
beauty.
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Chance (Paperback)
Kem Nunn
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R284
R234
Discovery Miles 2 340
Save R50 (18%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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From the LA Times Book Prize-winning author comes a suspenseful and
mind-bending novel about Eldon Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist
at the end of his rope - now a Hulu TV series starring Hugh Laurie
and Gretchen Moi. Chance is a dark story about psychiatric mystery,
sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic
violence; a tale told amid the back streets of California's Bay
Area, far from the cleansing breezes of the ocean. The antihero of
this book, Dr. Eldon Chance, a neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed
for spectacular ruin. Into Dr. Chance's blighted life walks Jaclyn
Blackstone, the abused, attractive wife of an Oakland homicide
detective, a violent and jealous man. Jaclyn appears to be
suffering from a dissociative identity disorder. In time, Chance
will fall into bed with her; or is it with her alter ego, the
voracious and volatile Jackie Black? The not-so-good doctor,
despite his professional training, isn't quite sure and soon finds
himself up against her husband, Raymond, a formidable and dangerous
adversary. Meanwhile, Chance also meets a young man named D, a
self-styled, streetwise philosopher skilled in the art of the
blade. It is around this trio of unique and dangerous individuals
that long-guarded secrets begin to unravel, obsessions grow, and
the doctor's carefully arranged life comes to the brink of
implosion. Chance is a twisted, harrowing, and
impossible-to-put-down head trip through the fun house of fate;
it's not pretty, it's not sweet, but it is disturbing and
unforgettable.
People came to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the
ultimate high and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker came to look for his
sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that
place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike looked into
the shadows and found parties that drifted towards pointless
violence, joyless violations and highs you might never come down
from... and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone bad.
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Huntington Beach
Kem Nunn
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R699
Discovery Miles 6 990
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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