True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr; Nothing Lost [3 volumes]

Dunne, John Gregory

ISBN 10: 0525223657 / ISBN 13: 9780525223658

Published by Published by E. P. Dutton; The Linden Press/ Simon and Schuster; Alfred A. Knopf 1977-2004, New York, 1977

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, True Confessions, [10], 341 pages; Dutch Shea, Jr, 352 pages, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, ISBN 0671412922; Nothing Lost, [8], 331 pages, advance reader's edition in paperback First Editions , slight bumping to spine of True Confessions, sunning to top and bottom edges of Dutch Shea Jr, front cover of Nothing Lost is curled slightly, True Confesssions havs foxing to the block edge, half title and last few leaves and some page edges are creased, Dutch Shea has very light foxing to edges and endpapers, books in very good condition , dustwrapper to True Confessions is rubbed at edges, dustwrapper to Dutch Shea Jr is in very good condition , cloth with gilt titles on spine; quarter cloth and paper covered boards with silver gilt titles on spine and initials to front board; printed card wraps , 24 cm x 16.5 cm Hardback and Paperback SIGNED by the author ISBN: 525223657.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr; Nothing Lost [3 volumes]
• Publisher: Published by E. P. Dutton; The Linden Press/ Simon and Schuster; Alfred A. Knopf 1977-2004, New York
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525223657
• ISBN 13: 9780525223658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jestâ "The Virgin Tramp"â and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of days" becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just after World War II. Played in the film version by Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro respectively, Tom is a homicide detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Church. The murder investigation provides the background against which are played the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers. Theirs is a world of favors and fixes, power and promises, inhabited by priests and pimps, cops and contractors, boxers and jockeys and lesbian fight promoters and lawyers who know how to put the fix in. A fast-paced and often hilarious classic of contemporary fiction, True Confessions is about a crime that has no solutions, only victims. More important, it is about the complex relationship between Tom and Des Spellacy, each tainted with the guilt and hostility that separate brothers.

About the Author

John Gregory Dunne was the author of six novels—Vegas; True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr.; The Red White and Blue; Playland; and Nothing Lost—and seven works of nonfiction, among which are the memoir-like Harp and two books that look at Hollywood, The Studio and Monster. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1932, he graduated from Princeton in 1954. He collaborated with his wife, the writer Joan Didion, on many screenplays, including Panic in Needle Park and True Confessions. John Gregory Dunne died in December 2003.