Twisted City
Starr, Jason
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
From the acclaimed noir novelist Jason Starr comes this savage portrait of a misanthropic man stuck in a New York nightmare. Written in caustic, streamlined prose, Twisted City is a chilling depiction of how quickly one's life can take a turn for the worst.
Times are tough for David Miller, a journalist for a second-rate financial magazine who hates his boss, is tired of supporting his girlfriend's partying lifestyle, and recently lost his sister to cancer. But things are about to get much worse. When he loses his wallet in a midtown bar, he is launched into a world where he finds himself being blackmailed by junkies, lying to his friends and family, and stumbling into a crime that may cost him his life.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Jason Starr's terrific and Twisted City is one of his best. Starr knows what James M. Cain knew: that a whole world of evil lies right on the edge of the everyday world and you can cross the border in a city minute. His stuff is tough and real and brilliant." --Andrew Klavan, author of Dynamite Road
"To the obsessive emotionality of a Cornell Woolrich and the gleeful nihilism of a Charles Willeford, Jason Starr adds his own twenty-first century urban weirdness. Funny, sick and harrowing, often all at once, Twisted City more than lives up to its title, and I enjoyed it tremendously." --Scott Philips, author of The Ice Harvest
Jason Starr is the first writer of his generation to convincingly update the modern crime novel by giving it provocative new spins.Bret Easton Ellis
A throwback to the spare, snappy crime writing of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain.Entertainment Weekly
A terrifically taut writer. The Baltimore Sun
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1400075068
ISBN(13-digit): 9781400075065
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2003069064
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 243
Paper Weight (lb): .4219 lb
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