Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples, Norman Howard
Автор: Howard Norman Название: Bird Artist, The ISBN: 0312130279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312130275 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Norman Howard Название: My Darling Detective ISBN: 1328916278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781328916273 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: " An] ingeniously plotted novel . . . Norman knows how to weave an enticing and satisfying mystery, one tantalizing thread at a time." -- New York Times Book Review
A witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman
Jacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction--his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she flings an open jar of ink at master photographer Robert Capa's Death on a Leipzig Balcony. Jacob's police detective fiancee is assigned to the ensuing interrogation. My Darling Detective delivers a fond nod to classic noir, as Jacob's understanding of the man he has always assumed to be his father unravels against the darker truth of Robert Emil, a police officer suspected of murdering two Jewish residents during an upswing of anti-Semitism in 1945. The denouement, involving a dire shootout and an emergency delivery--it's the second Rigolet to be born in the Halifax library in a three decades--is Howard Norman at his uncannily moving best.
"Norman works with an offhand ease and grace . . . Whimsy is balanced by moments of powerfully evoked realism." -- Washington Post
