UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16313120
ISBN:
9781101201718
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9781101201718
Inhalt:
" Over the past twenty-five years, T.C. Boyle has earned wide acclaim and an enthusiastic following with such adventurous, inimitable novels as The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City , and The Road to Wellville . For his riveting eleventh novel, Boyle offers readers the closest thing to a thriller he has ever written, a tightly scripted page turner about the trials of Dana Halter, a thirty-three-year-old deaf woman whose identity has been stolen. Featuring a woman in the lead role (a Boyle first), Talk Talk is both a suspenseful chase across America and a moving story about language, love, and identity from one of America's most versatile and entertaining novelists."
Inhalt:
Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 17, 2006 Bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award–,inner Boyle recasts the battle of good and evil as an identity theft suspense story in his 11th novel (following The Inner Circle ). Dana Halter, a ",lim, graceful, dark-eyed deaf woman of thirty-three,",runs a stop sign and is hauled off to jail when a routine police check turns up multiple pending felony charges. As Dana disappears into the criminal justice system, her earnest and willing boyfriend, Bridger (on deadline doing a sci-fi film', special effects), isn', much help. Meanwhile, William ",eck",Wilson—, social parasite whose lifestyle includes Armani, a house in Marin County and a shopaholic bombshell girlfriend imported from a former Soviet republic—,s actually the man behind the charges against Dana. Finally out on bail and reunited with Bridger, Dana lacks the resources to clear her name, but in the best tradition of the good guy willing to sacrifice everything for justice, Bridger chucks his job, and the two set off on Peck', trail. Boyle, always a risk taker, neatly manages the challenge of a deaf protagonist and a bad guy who is a gourmet cook, genuinely loves his bombshell and has a soft spot for children. As Dana and Bridger hurtle across the country and the tension mounts, Boyle drops crumbs of wisdom in signature style, and readers will be hot on the trail."
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/59C/A83/02/TalkTalk9781429540629.epub
URL:
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=59CA8302-79D2-449D-BC08-73A8D77810BD&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
URL:
http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=59CA8302-79D2-449D-BC08-73A8D77810BD
Mehr zum Autor:
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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