Ted Lewis (2) (1940–1982)
Autor(a) de Get Carter
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About the Author
Ted Lewis was born in Manchester, England in 1940. Lewis attended Hull Art School for four years. He worked as an animation specialist in television and films (among them the Beatles' Yellow Submarine). Lewis' first novel, All the Way Home and All the Night Through was published in 1965, followed mostrar mais by Jack's Return Home, subsequently retitled Get Carter after the success of the film of the same name starring Michael Caine, which created the noir school of British crime writing and pushed Lewis into the best-seller list. Lewis' novel GBH is available in reprint from Soho Press (April 2015). Ted Lewis died in 1982 having published seven more novels and written several episodes for the television series Z-Cars. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1940
- Data de falecimento
- 1982
- Sexo
- male
- Locais de residência
- Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 472
- Popularidade
- #52,190
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 16
- ISBN
- 86
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
Jack is a blunt weapon and it wont be long after he gets home that he will attract the attention of the criminal underworld because it is not so common to have big-league criminal from London snooping around and digging up dirt in his home town.
Story is given through first person perspective, we follow Jack as he narrates the events and criminals he encounters as he slowly but surely follows the clues to the main culprit responsible for his brother's death. It is not a straight path forward mind you and Jack finds himself very often on the receiving end of shots and punches.
Not a single character in the novel is what you might call good guy/girl (exceptions being woman that leases a room to Jack, Jack's brother and his daughter). This is milieu of criminals and people living off the crime. There is almost not a single person here who might be redeemed in any way (Jack included).
Recommended to all fans of crime and noir stories.… (mais)