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David Kranes - Abracadabra, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Abracadabra

A Novel

Av David Kranes

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Abracadabra is a fantastical and inventive addition to the tradition of noir writing, which not only delights and surprises at every turn but also raises important questions about identity, the human condition, the nature of evil, and the state of the union. The novel begins with a mystery, when Mark Goodson, a seemingly well-adjusted married man, disappears during a magic act, precipitating a series of events, encounters, and seemingly inexplicable occurrences, which it falls to a former professional football player, Elko Wells, to weave together into a story that is at once compelling and true. The concussion that ended Wells’ playing career left him open to hearing voices and discerning patterns of meaning helpful to his work as the owner of a missing-persons agency. He also owns a celebrity look-alike agency, which complicates matters in humorous ways, and his reliance on a string of cocktail waitresses called the Bloody Marys who are on the lookout for various people adds another level of intrigue.  Magicians and misdirection, gambling, down-on-one’s-luck, the crazed sense of possibility and impossibility, mistaken identity, impersonators and body doubles, people acting bizarrely with all sorts of chaos, collisions, and overlaps thrown in for good measure. Again and again the reader is swept into treacherous waters, always confident that the writer is in control of his material. Because the many twists and turns the plot takes are all but impossible to anticipate, the experience of reading Abracadabra is deliciously magical.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-11-01
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 360 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: University of Nevada Press
  • ISBN: 9781943859443
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David Kranes is the author of seven novels and three volumes of short stories, including Keno Runner: A Dark Romance. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and is professor emeritus of English at University of Utah.

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A fiery ride through Vegas, filled with intriguing characters and prose like lightning. With this novel, David Kranes becomes the literary heir to Robert Stone."" - Todd James Pierce, author of Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park""David Kranes’ new novel, Abracadabra, is a rollicking and inventive addition to the tradition of noir writing, which not only delights and surprises at every turn but also raises important questions about identity, the human condition, the nature of evil, and the state of the union. Kranes’s writing is superb—vivid, economical, and precise. He has a remarkable ear, which he uses to create biting dialogue, bringing to life a wide range of characters in situations that are at once improbable and utterly believable. Because the many twists and turns this plot takes are all but impossible to anticipate, the experience of reading Abracadabra is deliciously magical."" - Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood""No one writes about Las Vegas like David Kranes, capturing the heart of its extremity, the outsized magic, and the flickering shadow of risk, of danger in every avenue. He has always understood the elemental voltage of a place where everything is a gamble, an entire culture of bright brittle exhilaration, and his prose crackles with the temperature of the town, the grit and the glimmer. Abracadabra is a big, intense novel, a great read, and if I can say it this way: pure dire fun!"" - Ron Carlson, author of The Signal

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