The Carrion Birds

ISBN-13: 9780062216892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str.

Urban Waite

Opis

The Carrion Birds from Urban Waite, author of the highly acclaimed The Terror of Living, is a remarkable work of literary noir.Hired gun Ray Lamar is ready to put his past behind him. He wants to see his twelve-year-old son and start a new life--away from the violence of the last ten years. One last heist will take him there. All he has to do is steal a rival's stash. Simple, easy, clean. But when things start to go very wrong, Ray realizes the path to redemption isn't always easy.A soulful tale of violence, vengeance, and contrition, The Carrion Birds is an elegant depiction of one man's last chance to make things right.

Recenzje

" The Carrion Birds is as muscular and laconic as anything by Cormac McCarthy, yet it crackles with humanity. A-" Entertainment Weekly

O autorze

Urban Waite is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Carrion Birds and The Terror of Living, which was named one of Esquire's Ten Best Books of 2011. His work has been a finalist for the New Mexico and Arizona Book Awards, has been translated in nine languages, and is sold worldwide. He lives in Seattle with his wife.