One Good Turn

Atkinson, Kate (Signed)

ISBN 10: 0316154849 / ISBN 13: 9780316154840

Published by Little, Brown and Co., N. Y., 2006

About this Item

First Ameerican Edition: October 2006 - stated. First Printing, w/full number line. Pages white, binding tight, corners sharp, no writing or RM, not price clepped - complete. DJ has light edgewear and 1/4 inch tear @ corner - else Near Fine. Bookseller Invt. # N00020580N.

Seller Inventory # 000580

Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Good Turn
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., N. Y.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316154849
• ISBN 13: 9780316154840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing - This
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders.The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme.Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailties of the human heart, and a genius for plots that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises from the first page to the last.

About the Author

Kate Atkinson's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was then chosen as the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year. She is the author of a short story collection, Not the End of the World, and three other critically acclaimed novels, Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, and Case Histories. She lives in Edinburgh.