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A carregar... On acheve bien les chevaux (original 1935; edição 1973)por Horace Mc Coy
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Brilliant masterpiece. To be read by everyone, especially these days, full of consumerism, rat racing and pursuit of hollow and fake ideals. For the past several years I've chosen books by author or genre instead of plot. I never read the publishers synopsis before hand, so I go in with a clean slate, wanting to be surprised. Well, surprised I certainly was with this one. I was familiar with the title, and I knew a film was made based on the book, but that is as far as it went. What I found was a very tightly woven tale of the human condition at its extremes. I think this one will stay with me for a long time. Short and quick noir novella. Doesn't have all the drama with detectives and investigations blah blah. It has a smooth and neat flow to the narrative .. everything points towards answering a single question : why did he kill her? A man meets a girl .. both hard boiled for money .. they enroll into a dance marathon .. everything goes well for a few days until it all ends in a massive accident and murder. So why did he kill her? Isn't she someone he could have fallen in love with? Interesting Read! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Pertence à Série da EditoraEdiciones de bolsillo (297) El País. Serie negra (28) Gallimard, Folio (466) Gyldendals Tranebøger (214) — 6 mais Está contido emAmerican Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s (Library of America) por Robert Polito (indirecta) Club del misterio. Volumen I: Prólogo de J. J. BORGES. "El cuento policial, IX" . Dashiell HAMMETT: "Cosecha roja". Arthur CONAN DOYLE: "Las aventuras de Shrlock Holmes". Hellery QUEEN: "Cara a cara". Raymond CHANDLER: "El sueño eterno". Patricia IHGSMITH: Erle STANLEY GARDNER: "El cuchillo". "El caso del juguete mortífero". James HADLEY CHASE: "Impulso creador". "El secuestro de Miss Blandish". Nicholas BLAKE: "La bestia debe morir". Volumen 2: Prólogo de R. CHANDLER: " El simpl por AA.VV (indirecta) Tem a adaptação
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During the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny of the media, corporate sponsors and obsessive fans, the competing couples are put through a series of gruelling and humiliating feats of endurance, until they begin to fight among themselves and betray each other. As days and weeks go by, the tension reaches boiling point, and this pitch-black tale of desire and desperation heads towards a violent conclusion. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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