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Ladataan... Black and White and Dead All Over (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2008; vuoden 2008 painos)Tekijä: John Darnton (Tekijä)
TeostiedotBlack and White and Dead All Over (tekijä: John Darnton) (2008)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Interesting plot, totally grips me...but writing is rather newspaper-ish... ( ) I loved this author's earlier The Darwin Conspiracy (though not so much his first novel, Neanderthal), so pounced on this when I came across it. A series of murders in the building of the New York Globe (i.e., the New York Times, where Darnton has for a long time been an illustrious fixture) shocks all the journos and indeed the nation. The tale is full of roman a clef elements -- no prizes for guessing who's the prototype for Antipodean media mogul Lester Moloch, for example -- but that's just icing on what proves, after a sticky first 50 or so pages, to be a very delectable cake. Those early pages are annoying because Darnton opts for a cheap way of trying to keep our attention -- repeating wacky urban-legend-style journo tales. Because the tales actually are funny/bizarre/whatever, this first part of the book isn't boring: it's just that I got fed up by the fact that as good a writer as Darnton can be was so lacking in confidence as to be resorting to this tactic. The early part of the book is, too, marred by P.D. James-esque orotundity. That hurdle over, the book got better and better. I laughed out loud quite a few times (as when the Globe boss, a man with a rare talent for mauling quotes, came out with "The only thing we have to worry about is worry itself", p198); meanwhile, I was turning the pages avidly to find out what was going to happen next. Great stuff. Entertaining, funny, informative, nostalgic as well as a good mystery-- I really liked this book and the writing and newspaper anecdotes and insider-speak kept me interested. Look at some of the character names: Guilliam Toothy (the PR guy), Elisha Hagenbuckle (publisher), Priscilla Bollingsworth (police), Vickie Gimmy (national editor), Peregrin Whibbleby (gossip columnist), Judith/Dinah Outsalot (food critic)-- see what I mean?
"But Darnton deftly captures the after-hours banter in neighborhood bars and the atmospherics of the big-city newsroom — the petty rivalries, the resentment felt by middle-aged burnouts, the deskbound ex-war-correspondents who pine for their swashbuckling youth." "In his deliciously sharp, wise and hilarious new novel, "Black & White and Dead All Over," John Darnton ("Neanderthal," "The Darwin Conspiracy"), a longtime scribe and editor for the New York Times, has created a menagerie of newsroom wags working for the fictional New York Globe -- and turned a serial killer loose to feast upon their sagging, pasty flesh." "A venerable New York newspaper becomes a crime scene in this multifaceted, gloriously entertaining thriller from Pulitzer-winning journalist Darnton"
Priscilla Bollingsworth, a young, ambitious female NYPD detective, investigates the killing of a powerful newspaper editor. She teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, and together they navigate the ink-infested waters whose denizens include the paper's resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. But the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over--From publisher description. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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