Broken Monsters
Autor Lauren Beukesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 apr 2015
Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he's found new dreams - of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real.
Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city. Murder-city. And home to a killer opening doors into the dark heart of humanity.
A killer who wants to make you whole again...
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780007464616
ISBN-10: 0007464614
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN-10: 0007464614
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
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Descriere
In the city that's become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls. Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide.
She's seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she's never seen anything like this. Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man.
Life destroyed his plans, so he's found new dreams - of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real. Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city.
Murder-city. And home to a killer opening doors into the dark heart of humanity. A killer who wants to make you whole again...
Notă biografică
Lauren
Beukeswrites
novels,
comics
and
screenplays.
She's
the
author
of
the
critically-acclaimed
international
bestseller,The
Shining
Girls,
about
a
time-traveling
serial
killer,Zoo
City,
a
phantasmagorical
Joburg
noir
which
won
the
2011
Arthur
C
Clarke
Award,
and
the
neo
political
thrillerMoxyland.
She
worked
as
a
journalist,
a
show
runner
on
one
of
the
South
Africa's
biggest
animated
TV
shows,
directed
an
award-winning
documentary
and
wrote
theNew
York
Timesbest-selling
graphic
novel,Fairest:
The
Hidden
Kingdom.
She
lives
in
Cape
Town,
South
Africa.
Recenzii
"This
one
has
a
vivid
sense
of
place
and
a
colorful
and
interesting
cast
of
characters
.
.
.
I
will
be
looking
forward
to
whatever
Lauren
Beukes
does
next.
She's
a
major,
major
talent."—George
R.
R.
Martin,BookBub
"Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled . . . An enormously satisfying novel that employs the best attributes of multiple genres to dramatize big ideas about art, the Internet and urban decay."—New York Times Book Review
"Captivating . . . A thoroughly modern, supernatural thriller."—Karolina Waclawiak,Los Angeles Times
"Remarkable is Beukes's ability to blend genres, seamlessly incorporating horror, fantasy and traditional crime in ways that highlight the best parts of each. It feels new--unprecedented, in a way."—Madison Vain,Entertainment Weekly
"It's hard to overstate how ambitiousBroken Monstersis, maybe because Beukes somehow manages to make it look easy. Her prose is unhindered, exuberant and something like addictive. . . .Broken Monstersis one of the most remarkable books of the year, and one of the best suspense novels you'll read in quite some time."—Michael Schaub,NPR
"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down. . . . I'd grab it, if I were you."—Stephen King
"Dig it: what a brilliant crime-phantasmagoria novel this is!!!!! This splendid novel is THE new primer on urban decay to the nth degree. I unhesitatingly urge you to buy it and read it now!"—James Ellroy
"Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled . . . An enormously satisfying novel that employs the best attributes of multiple genres to dramatize big ideas about art, the Internet and urban decay."—New York Times Book Review
"Captivating . . . A thoroughly modern, supernatural thriller."—Karolina Waclawiak,Los Angeles Times
"Remarkable is Beukes's ability to blend genres, seamlessly incorporating horror, fantasy and traditional crime in ways that highlight the best parts of each. It feels new--unprecedented, in a way."—Madison Vain,Entertainment Weekly
"It's hard to overstate how ambitiousBroken Monstersis, maybe because Beukes somehow manages to make it look easy. Her prose is unhindered, exuberant and something like addictive. . . .Broken Monstersis one of the most remarkable books of the year, and one of the best suspense novels you'll read in quite some time."—Michael Schaub,NPR
"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down. . . . I'd grab it, if I were you."—Stephen King
"Dig it: what a brilliant crime-phantasmagoria novel this is!!!!! This splendid novel is THE new primer on urban decay to the nth degree. I unhesitatingly urge you to buy it and read it now!"—James Ellroy