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Synopsis
Nearing the end of his career, aging crime novelist Jim Thompson takes on a project from a small-time Hollywood producer and soon finds that he is being framed for the murder of a Hollywood starlet. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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REVIEWS AND PRAISE FOR MANIFESTO FOR THE DEAD
"A dark and brooding novel... Stansberry's prose is an eerie echo of a dead man's style. And his insights into a writer's anxiety about losing his identity to his characters would make Thompson's own skin crawl."
--The New York Times
"Fascinating, beautifully written.... Thompson is alive on the page, and the questions that Stansberry poses about the nature of noir seem part of Thompson's own disintegrating persona... an enviable achievement."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Stansberry buries a sense of cosmic foreboding in nearly every line. Through a poetics of menace that at times takes on a positively hallucinatory beauty, Stansberry exposes the Manichaean heart of noir."
--LA Weekly
About the Author
Domenic Stansberry is two-time Edgar nominee whose earlier books include The Last Days of Il Duce, The Spoiler, and Exit Paradise. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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- PublisherMinotaur Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0312267614
- ISBN 13 9780312267612
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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