The white road - Hardcover

Connolly, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340821183 ISBN 13: 9780340821183

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002

Synopsis

2002 Signed First Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover Edition (British) by author Full number 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Very Good+/Very Good+ Dust jacket is in very good+ condition wrapped in a mylar protective cover. Minimal signs of shelf wear on fold tips. Book is in very good+ condition, boards and spine are straight, pages clean, no remainder mark. Page edge toning/tanning (light) can be seen; Fading at bottom edge of spine (1/8" strip) from sun exposure. This copy was an original purchase and read once. Very good+ used copy of this title with flaws noted.

About this title

About the Author

John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. His debut -EVERY DEAD THING - swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers, and all his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award.

From Publishers Weekly

"I have learned to embrace the dead and they, in their turn, have found a way to reach out to me." It's becoming increasingly clear from pronouncements such as this that PI Charlie Parker is hardly your garden-variety mystery protagonist. In Connolly's latest spine-tingling opus (after The Killing Kind), readers gain further insights into the soul of this tormented man-a hero of uncommon depth and compulsions. We also learn more about Angel and Louis, Parker's longtime cronies (and gay Odd Couple) who function as Greek chorus, avenging angels and their buddy's conscience. Angel resembles "the runway model for a decorators' convention, assuming that the decorators' tastes veered toward five-six, semiretired gay burglars," while Louis possesses "six feet six inches of attitude, razor-sharp dress sense, and gay Republican pride." (Note to Connolly: how about a spin-off novel for these two idiosyncratic supporting players?) Parker's description of his newest case-"dead people, a mystery, more dead people"-exemplifies his bluntness; true to form, he's never far from a cutting remark or casual wisecrack (hearing that an especially odious character has "found Jesus," Parker observes, "I figure Jesus should be more careful about who finds Him"). When a former colleague who's practicing law in Charleston, S.C., asks for Parker's help on a racially charged murder case, Parker reluctantly leaves his Maine habitat. The South that he encounters is found in no guidebook: it's a pernicious locale where the good old boys are far from good, where country music speaks "of war and vengeance" and where one soulless individual "smelled of slow burning... like the odor left after an oil fire had just been extinguished." Adding eerie overtones to Connolly's intricately plotted tale are more of Parker's musings on the concept of death and the nature of evil-soliloquies often accompanied by spectral visions. The malevolence here is almost palpable (even more so than in Parker's earlier outings).
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Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340821183
• ISBN 13: 9780340821183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 410