Afterburn by COLIN HARRISON - Used Book - Hardcover - 2000 - from Thomas Books and Biblio.com

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Book summary

This brooding, sophisticated thriller tells the story of Charlie Ravich, a beleaguered family man and traumatized Vietnam vet, and Christina Welles, an attractive ex-con with a violent mobster on her tail. Moving from Hong Kong to New York, the novel paints a disturbing picture of life in the contemporary megalopolis, and the grace with which Harrison depicts graphic violence makes him a sort of literary Sam Peckinpah.

Media reviews

"Unlike so many other recent American crime novels (James Ellroy's, for example) AFTERBURN never splinters into cheap nihilism....Harrison has created a world that's dangerous, cruel, overbright, too fast, and unreliable--but a world that's worth staying alive in. This is a serious, stylish, generously humane work of fiction."

Afterburn

by HARRISON, COLIN

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Book desription: New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. As New/As New. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Colin Harrison. Very fine book in very fine dj.

Bookseller: Thomas Books (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 2008899
Format/binding: Hardcover
Book condition: As New
Jacket condition: As New
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374102058
ISBN 13: 9780374102050
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Place: New York
Date published: 2000
Pages: 438
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 x 1.5 inches
LCCN: PS3558.A6655A69 2000
Dewey: 813.5/4
Weight: 1.65 pounds
Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General;

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