The Long Firm
London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there's a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. Harry's business is fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; putting the frighteners...
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London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there's a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. Harry's business is fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; putting the frighteners on, performing menace while trying to desperately trying to jump the counter into legitimacy.
Five characters tell five tales that combine in an extraordinary narrative that is both an explosively paced thriller and brilliantly imagined sociological and topographical portrait of sixties London.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780340752418
Publish date: 2004 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Sceptre
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Crime,
Noir,
Modern,
Pulp,
Glbt
Series: The Long Firm Trilogy (#1)
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La capacidad de este autor para desarrollar cinco puntos de vista completamente diferentes, con cinco estilos narrativos completamente diferentes, es digna de admiración. Sin contar por supuesto al protagonista, mezcla de bestia con genio, que termina generando una sensación ambivalente en el lector...