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The 25th Hour de David Benioff

The 25th Hour

Autor David Benioff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2002
Monty Brogan starts a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs tomorrow. Tonight is his last night of freedom. His father wants him to run. His drug-lord boss wants to know if he squealed. His girlfriend isn't sure what she wants, and his two best friends know one thing for sure; after he goes in, he will never be the same. - A spellbinding portrait of three buddies confronting the consequences of their carefree youth on the streets of New York.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780340822296
ISBN-10: 0340822295
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: n/a
Dimensiuni: 114 x 177 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Film tie-in ed.
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

David Benioff was born and raised in New York City. An author and screenwriter, he adapted his first novel, The 25th Hour, into the screenplay for Spike Lee's popular feature film of the same name. His historical fiction novel City of Thieves and short story collection When the Nines Rolled Over received critical acclaim. Stories from the collection have appeared in Best New American Voices and The Best Nonrequired American Reading. He is the author of the screenplays for the films Troy, Stay, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Kite Runner as well as the creator of the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, based on the books from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. David Benioff lives in Los Angeles and New York City.

Recenzii

'Acerbically captivating first novel...Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires. He gives this slim, engaging book a colorful range...Benioff delivers as full a surprise as the situation demands. But what makes his book enjoyable beyond his mere mechanics is the character study that develops as old friends get together and begin provoking one another' - NEW YORK TIMES Acerbically captivating first novel ... Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires -- The New York Times As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city's possibilities and unsatisfied longings -- The New Yorker 'Part thriller, part hip New York novella ... first class debut' - GQ -- GQ 'A stylish, beautifully written novel with a sharply drawn backdrop of New York ... The book is filled with marvellous vignettes. The mixture of tenderness and jealousy among the friends, their fear and resentment remain in the memory' - Susanna Yager, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH -- Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph David Benioff's headlong suspense novel is a deceptively simple chronicle of [Monty's] final day of freedom ... Working in a novelistic form of "real time", Benioff shows a knack for critiquing his genre while revitalising its cliches ... Instead of yielding mere irony, the author, in his first novel, achieves both pathos and excitement -- Entertainment Weekly Brilliantly conceived, this gripping crime drama boasts dead-on dialogue, chiaroscuro portraits of New York's social strata and an inescapable crescendo of tension. Monty's solution to his agonising dilemmas will shock even hardened suspense lovers -- Publishers Weekly original and tightly written - Liverpool Echo -- Liverpool Echo THE 25TH HOUR is a wonderfully written first novel ... [a] brilliant and disturbing story -- Otto Penzler, amazon.com A stylish, beautifully written novel with a sharply drawn backdrop of New York ... The book is filled with marvellous vignettes. The mixture of tenderness and jealousy among the friends, their fear and resentment remain in the memory -- Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph The most impressive novel since Donna Tart's The Secret History ... a masterly crafted variation on the conventional crime and punishment novel -- Philip Hamer, City Life A marvellous novel ... the result is a beautifully written, well-paced novel - with a cracking twist in its tail. -- Observer

'Acerbically captivating first novel ... Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires' -- The New York Times 'As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city's possibilities and unsatisfied longings' -- The New Yorker 'David Benioff's headlong suspense novel is a deceptively simple chronicle of [Monty's] final day of freedom ... Working in a novelistic form of "real time", Benioff shows a knack for critiquing his genre while revitalising its cliches ... Instead of yielding mere irony, the author, in his first novel, achieves both pathos and excitement' -- Entertainment Weekly 'Brilliantly conceived, this gripping crime drama boasts dead-on dialogue, chiaroscuro portraits of New York's social strata and an inescapable crescendo of tension. Monty's solution to his agonising dilemmas will shock even hardened suspense lovers' -- Publishers Weekly 'THE 25TH HOUR is a wonderfully written first novel ... [a] brilliant and disturbing story' -- Otto Penzler, amazon.com 'A stylish, beautifully written novel with a sharply drawn backdrop of New York ... The book is filled with marvellous vignettes. The mixture of tenderness and jealousy among the friends, their fear and resentment remain in the memory' -- Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph 'The most impressive novel since Donna Tart's The Secret History ... a masterly crafted variation on the conventional crime and punishment novel' -- Philip Hamer, City Life 20020701 'A marvellous novel ... the result is a beautifully written, well-paced novel - with a cracking twist in its tail.' -- Observer 20020623