Martha Grimes Walks Into a Pub: Essays on a Writer with a Load of Mischief

ISBN-13: 9780786442867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 206 str.

Sarah D. Fogle

Opis

Since the 1979 discovery of Martha Grimes' work in a slush pile at Little, Brown & Co., she has gone on to publish over thirty books and is one of the most respected crime writers presently working. This collection of ten critical essays provides an in-depth analysis of Grimes' oeuvre, principally the Richard Jury, Emma Graham, and Andi Oliver series. The essays address Grimes' themes of parental abandonment, loneliness, obsession, greed, mistaken and dual identity, the resilience of children, stunted romantic relationships and animal cruelty. Particular critical attention is paid to her engaging characters, strong sense of place and the comedy, which features so strongly in her novels.]