Sleeping Beauty

ISBN-13: 9780375708664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str.

Ross MacDonald; Richard S. Hutchinson

Opis

In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best.
If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

Recenzje

"Ross Macdonald is either part or wholly wizard. . .conjuring the magic of real mystery. . . . A masterpiece." --Chicago Tribune Book World

"Sleeping Beauty is particularly complex and satisfactory. . . . It is a marvelous formula that Macdonald has found; the wonder is that he keeps improving it." --Newsweek

"Ross Macdonald remains the grandmaster, taking the crime novel to new heights by imbuing it with psychological resonance, complexity of story, and richness of style that remain inspiring." --Jonathan Kellerman

O autorze

Ross Macdonald, geboren 1915 in Los Gatos, Kalifornien, zählt zu den besten amerikanischen Kriminalautoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er wird in Großbritannien und Amerika und nun auch bei uns wiederentdeckt. Dabei verdankt er seine Karriere eher einem Zufall: Seine Frau Margaret war Schriftstellerin - und verdiente mit Schreiben bald mehr als er mit seiner Dozentur. So wurde aus dem Dozenten Kenneth Millar in Michigan der Schriftsteller Ross Macdonald in Kalifornien. Seine Bücher sind Bestseller und wurden erfolgreich verfilmt, so zum Beispiel 'Unter Wasser stirbt man nicht' (1975) mit Paul Newman und Joanne Woodward. Seine Kriminalromane gelten als Spiegel der amerikanischen Gesellschaft. Ross Macdonald starb 1983 in Santa Barbara.