Shoot the Piano Player
by:
David Goodis (author)
Once upon a time Eddie played conert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.Shoot the Piano...
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Once upon a time Eddie played conert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679732549 (0679732543)
Publish date: October 3rd 1990
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 158
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Pulp,
Hard Boiled
From the back: "If Jack Kerouac had written crime novels, they might have sounded a bit like this." - Geoffrey O'Brien. What else is there to say?
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