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A Fine Dark Line - Joe R. Lansdale, Dick Hill
A Fine Dark Line
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The time is the summer of 1958. The place is Dewmont, Texas, a town that the great American postwar boom has somehow passed by. A sad, hollow beat trails the kids who tune into rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat... show more
The time is the summer of 1958. The place is Dewmont, Texas, a town that the great American postwar boom has somehow passed by. A sad, hollow beat trails the kids who tune into rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like thin molasses. For blissfully ignorant thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of an old trove of passionate yet troubled love letters that lead him to a long-ago house fire and the tragic deaths of two very different young women. Obsessed with investigating their fates, Stanley finds a guide and mentor in black, elderly Buster Lighthouse Smith, a retired Indian Reservation policeman who now runs the projector at the drive-in theater owned by Stanley's parents. The laconic Buster tutors Stanley on the finer points of Sherlock Holmes, the blues, and life's lost dreams. But not every buried thing stays dead. And in one terrifying night of rushing creek water and thundering rain, an arcane, murderous force will suddenly rise from the past to threaten the boy - and test the limits of Buster's strength and wisdom. In the end the old man teaches Stanley a lesson that will haunt him always, about the forever short distance between living flesh and the dust from which it came.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9781593557966 (1593557965)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
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NiWa
NiWa rated it
4.0 Texanischer Sommer
Texas, Ende der 1950er-Jahre. Der 13jährige Stanley hat bis vor Kurzem noch an den Weihnachtsmann geglaubt. 1958 muss er dann auch noch lernen, woher die Kinder kommen, was Rassismus ist und wie gewaltigtätig die Menschen um ihn herum sein können. Gleichzeitig erlebt er einen unvergesslichen Sommer,...
Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it
4.0 A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale
GR Cleanup Project Read in 2010 This Lansdale novel, unlike the other Lansdale novels I’ve read, is told from the point of view of a thirteen year old boy named Stanley. It’s not filled with the off-the-rails cursing and crazy gore that I expect when reading a work from this guy but it still kept ...
Amelien
Amelien rated it
5.0 Kleiner Held ganz GROß
Bisher hatte ich noch nichts von Lansdale gelesen und ich muss sagen, ich bin wirklich richtig begeistert und beeindruckt, über diesen spannenden, ehrlichen, fesselnden und berührenden Krimi.Dieses wird sicher nicht mein letztes Buch von Lansdale sein.Er schafft es ohne große Schnörkel, den Leser in...
Gregor Xane
Gregor Xane rated it
4.0 A Fine Dark Line
Quick and entertaining. Although, I was somewhat disappointed that the mystery wasn't solved through investigation, considering a lot of time was spent investigating (and great risks were taken to get the materials needed for the investigation). As always, with Lansdale, I found myself laughing out ...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it
4.0
A Fine Fark Line is the novel that is most like Lansdale's other classic, The Bottoms. There is a lot of similarities: It s a coming-of-age story wrapped around a mystery. It takes place in East Texas but in the 50s, not in the 30s as with The Bottoms. There is also many of Lansdale's favorite topic...
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