Shella by Andrew Vachss (1993, Hardcover 1st edition)

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Country of Origin
United States
Subject
Mystery, Thriller
Special Attributes
1st Edition
Year
1993
ISBN
9780679424161
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679424164
ISBN-13
9780679424161
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1384042

Product Key Features

Book Title
Shella
Number of Pages
225 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / General
Publication Year
1993
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Non-Classifiable, Fiction
Author
Andrew Vachss
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
14.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-075207
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A noir archetype as bare as unfinished furniture. The plot...has been sanded down into a taut monofilament... The prose in Shella is boiled to the bone." --Village Voice "Vachss tells his story in an understated shorthand.... He seems bottomlessly knowledgeable...about the depth and variety of human twistedness." --The New York Times From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators. He is called "Ghost" because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he slays with such reflexive ease that he might be one of the dead. Once he traveled with a woman who was called "Shella" -- because those who had treated her as a horrendously ill-used child had tried to make her come out of her shell. Now Shella has vanished in a wilderness of strip clubs and peep shows, and Ghost is looking for her, guided by a killer's instinct and the recognition that can only exist between two people who have been damaged past the point of no return. The result is Andrew Vachss's most compelling work to date, the thriller reimagined as a bleak romance of the damned. From the Trade Paperback edition.
LC Classification Number
PS3572.A33S48 1993

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