Inhalt:The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler’s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he’s a quiet, lonely, and remarkably capable and confident private detective, though he lives beneath the shadow of his father, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective, famous throughout the city, who’s given in to drink after the death of Marlowe’s mother.
Marlowe, against his better judgement, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The Goodbye Coast is Marlowe’s troubled and confounding relationship with his father, a son who despises yet respects his dad, and a dad who’s unable to hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy.
Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide’s The Goodbye Coast is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.
Erschienen am 1. Februar 2022https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/joe-ide-the-goodbye-coast/hnum/10700625https://www.amazon.de/Goodbye-Coast-Philip-Marlowe-Novel/dp/0316459275
Fast wäre die Nachricht spurlos an mir vorbei gegangen. Zufällig habe ich dieses Buch als Empfehlung bei Amazon entdeckt und mich natürlich sogleich gefreut und es mir auf meinen ebook Reader bestellt und geladen.
Der Inhalt klingt vielversprechend und der etwas modernere Touch tut der Reihe gut. Bin gespannt!
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