Voices - Hardcover

Shubin, Seymour

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812830024 ISBN 13: 9780812830026

Publisher: Stein & Day Pub, 1985

Synopsis

With an alias and a confidential address, Lynn Shephard feels safely removed from the clients of her phone sex service, but a dangerously unstable caller is obsessively seeking her true identity

About this title

About the Author

Seymour Shubin has been producing short stories and novels for over 50 years, beginning with the New York Times' bestseller Anyone's My Name. The novel has been taught in university criminology courses in the USA and "it is a book that has refused to simply lay down and die. Not only have readers continued to flood the author with letters, but the distinguished house of Gallimard published the book in France" [Fantastic Fiction]. Shubin has now written countless short stories and articles, and fifteen novels... including the Edgar Special Award winning The Captain. In recent years he has worked with Murder Slim Press, releasing the Spinetingler Award-nominees The Hunch and Lonely No More, as well as the 2013 poetry collection Why Me.

Shubin works in the crime genre, but he does not write whodunits. There's no long wait to find who the criminal is, but there is a study of how they were driven to their crimes... and whether they can be stopped or redeemed. The focus is on the effects of crime, and often their emotional impact on both the victim and the perpetrator. Jonathan Hellerman hails Shubin's "first-rate writing, marvelous characterization, believable dialogue, plus compassion, intelligence", while Rod Lott acknowledges that "he arrives at a heartbreaking end that's a sucker-punch to the groin, and I mean that as a compliment. Few writers can make you feel that kind of pain."

Review

"I certainly enjoyed the book. It became especially gripping... [and] there's no question the writing is skillfully done and on a high level."
- Don Swaim, Wired For Books

"The characters, in particular, are still fresh in my mind... maybe it's because it refuses to follow the sex-industry clichés that I always felt were phony. Or maybe it's because Voices is simply a damn good, eye-opening and pacy read."
- Steve Hussy, Savage Kick #5

About this edition

• Publisher: Stein & Day Pub
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0812830024
• ISBN 13: 9780812830026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 238