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Galveston
Nic Pizzolatto
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Description for Galveston
Paperback. The richly atmospheric, Dennis Lehane-lauded debut thriller from the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 192.
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 of violence. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman ... Read more
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 of violence. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751557053
SKU
9780751557053
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Ref
99-2
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Galveston
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
Dennis Lehane The New York Times There are resonances of the great James Lee Burke in the elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story that makes it unforgettable.
Geoffrey Wansall Daily Mail Galveston ... Read more
Dennis Lehane The New York Times There are resonances of the great James Lee Burke in the elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story that makes it unforgettable.
Geoffrey Wansall Daily Mail Galveston ... Read more