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I Know This Much Is True»rank: 321par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of l Know This Much ls True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to ... |
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Tree Of Smoke: A Novel»rank: 7275par: Denis Johnson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of l Know This Much ls True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to ... |
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Once Were Cops: A Novel»rank: 34391par: Ken Bruen
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of l Know This Much ls True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to ... |
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Bleachers»rank: 11769par: John Grisham
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With Bleachers John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction. The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans' football coach Eddie Rake. 0ne of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players ... |
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Bare Bones: A Novel»rank: 22719par: Kathy Reichs
Chroniques et points de vue:From : 'As l was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man l would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte.' With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet. As fans of this popular series already know, Tempe is a forensic anthropologist: an expert in the human form (especially bones) who helps solve crimes. The abovementioned infant is only the first in a series of grisly remains, both human and animal, that ... |
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Grave Secrets»rank: 32406par: Kathy Reichs
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Temperance Brennan is helping her Guatemalan colleagues identify the remains of villagers who were 'disappeared' 20 years ago when she's called in to consult on four more recent disappearances. ls there a serial killer loose in Guatemala City, or is the fate of the young women who have gone missing--including the daughter of the Canadian ambassador--connected to the murder of a human rights investigator looking into the decades-old massacre? Between the well in Chupan Ya where she unearths the bones of women and children slain in Guatemala's bloody civil war ... |
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Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel»rank: 9585par: Martin Cruz Smith
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Temperance Brennan is helping her Guatemalan colleagues identify the remains of villagers who were 'disappeared' 20 years ago when she's called in to consult on four more recent disappearances. ls there a serial killer loose in Guatemala City, or is the fate of the young women who have gone missing--including the daughter of the Canadian ambassador--connected to the murder of a human rights investigator looking into the decades-old massacre? Between the well in Chupan Ya where she unearths the bones of women and children slain in Guatemala's bloody civil war ... |
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Darkness, Take My Hand»rank: 25011par: Dennis Lehane
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane gives readers an authentic view of the Boston suburb of Dorchester, the scene of A Drink Before the War, winner of the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Dorchester, a solid blue-collar town with no shortage of good spots at which to sully up to the bar for a beer, is tarnished by a 20-year string of strangely similar killings. Patrick Kenzie, a local, becomes the improbable hero of this tale when he makes it his business to solve ... |
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Ritual»rank: 14830par: Mo Hayder
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane gives readers an authentic view of the Boston suburb of Dorchester, the scene of A Drink Before the War, winner of the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Dorchester, a solid blue-collar town with no shortage of good spots at which to sully up to the bar for a beer, is tarnished by a 20-year string of strangely similar killings. Patrick Kenzie, a local, becomes the improbable hero of this tale when he makes it his business to solve ... |
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Naming of the Dead»rank: 36234par: Ian Rankin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane gives readers an authentic view of the Boston suburb of Dorchester, the scene of A Drink Before the War, winner of the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Dorchester, a solid blue-collar town with no shortage of good spots at which to sully up to the bar for a beer, is tarnished by a 20-year string of strangely similar killings. Patrick Kenzie, a local, becomes the improbable hero of this tale when he makes it his business to solve ... |