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A carregar... Swansea Terminal (2007)por Robert Lewis
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 Swansea Terminal comes with a plaudit from the New Welsh Review that reads "Lewis mines a buried seam in the national psyche". If this is true, then heaven help Wales, because the picture created here is far from pretty. Dark, bleak, sordid, sinister, and very, very funny, Swansea Terminal is Lewis's second novel featuring private investigator Robin Llewellyn. Homeless and a chronic alcoholic, he weaves from crisis to crisis until he agrees to take a job guarding a warehouse full of iffy booze and finds himself embroiled in a VAT scam run by some of the country's most dangerous gangsters. Wonderfully poignant, with the pathos fuelling the suspense, the bitter-sweet ending leaves one in some doubt as to whether our hero will manage to evade lung cancer, cirrhosis and mono-browed thugs for long enough to stagger through a third book, but I'm keeping my fingers firmly crossed. Pertence a SérieRobin Llewellyn (2)
Swansea Terminal is the sequel to Robert's Lewis acclaimed debut, The Last Llanelli Train. Readers of the earlier novel may be surprised to discover that a sequel exists: after all P.I. Robin Llewellyn ended the first book as a terminal alcoholic pursued by killers. Well, he's back, but only just: as Swansea Terminal opens, Robin is homeless in Swansea, just another dosser intent on drinking himself into an early grave. He doesn't look in any state to stagger through another crime caper as twisted as The Last Llanelli Train ? but stagger through it he does. After all, Robin is the perfect patsy, and before long Swansea's dodgiest gangsters have found him a job ? one only a chronic alcoholic with nothing to lose would be crazy enough to take. Every bit as dark, funny and oddly poignant as The Last Llanelli Train, this is new British crime fiction at its very finest. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Many newspaper reviews I have read have described narrator Robin Llywellyn as 'unlikeable', which surprises me - I quite liked him. Not short of intelligence, and possessed of a sardonic opinion on everything from cockles to Roy Keane, I found his sarcastic humour hit a perfect note. He is not self-pitying, and knows that it is his addiction to alcohol that has landed him on the streets and got him barred from Tesco.
It's an absolute mystery to me that this series of books is not more widely available in bookstores, and that Robert Lewis is not a better known name in literature. He is surely one of the best and wittiest new writers to come on the scene in years, and no I'm not a member of his publicity team. Great book! (