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Ask the Parrot: A Parker Novel by Richard Stark: New
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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
- Publication Date
- 2017-09-08
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 022648565X
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Ask the Parrot : a Parker Novel
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Crime, General
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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ASK THE PARROT opens where "Nobody Runs Forever" left off, with Parker dodging dogs, cops, and a helicopter. He's forced to work with a small-town recluse and some fools in a gun club, and only Parker's brains, cool, and speed keep him a step ahead of everyone pursuing him. While others get impatient and stupid, Parker stays focused on getting cash and getting out. This is the 23rd of Stark's 24 Parker novels, Lots of guns and cars, and a feeling of being trapped in rural Massachusetts. Duane Swwierczynski's brief and breezy foreword describes how he came to read and search for the Parker novels, and much they influenced him.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022648565x
ISBN-13
9780226485652
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038253728
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ask the Parrot : a Parker Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Crime, General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.2in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3573.E9a93 2017
Reviews
One of the darkest and best-loved names in all of noir. . . . Parker is truly frightening because he is so horribly familiar: callous, unable to feel guilt for his actions, completely lacking in empathy, and incapable of learning from his own bitter experience, he is a kind of degenerate Everyman, the pulp-fiction counterpart of Philip Roth's morally crippled and contaminated heroes. . . . The plot is classic Westlake deadpan rhapsody, a vision of endless roads and featureless towns, landscapes and people unravelling. . . . My guess is that Westlake won't be remembered for his good humour--who is? He may not be remembered as Donald Westlake at all. My guess is he'll be remembered for the deep blankness of Richard Stark., Stark Will Paste Grins on the Faces of Readers Who Dared Give the Hardcase Heist Man Up for Caught., Read Ask the Parrot and find out why Stark is the kind of writer who, whatever else you're reading, you stop dead and read his latest., Fiercely distracting . . . . Westlake is an expert plotter; and while Parker is a blunt instrument of a human being depicted in rudimentary short grunts of sentences, his take on other characters reveals a writer of great humor and human understanding., Involving. . . . The closest Parker's come to an act of mercy in his entire bullet-ridden career. As for what happens to the parrot--don't ask. Our beak is sealed., Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark. His lean style and hard-edged characters . . . provide a welcome return to the hard-bitten days of yore., Classic Stark, the grandmaster of crime fiction. . . . As lean, hungry, and tightly plotted as ever. . . . Superior entertainment.", Do you like your crime fiction pared to the bone, with never a wasted word? Are you addicted to narratives that move with bullet-speed velocity, in which every action is fraught with reined in menace? Then Stark is undoubtedly your man., Like a great white shark that leaves a trail of blood which excites smaller sharks, Parker inspires criminal behavior in the average citizens around him. . . . Parrot is well up to the usual Stark standard. Unusually for the series, it's often funny, laced with Stark's brutally morbid humor rather than Westlake's wry ironies. And as always, Westlake is a master of lean, hardboiled prose and fast-moving, tense scenes that drip with potential violence before, inevitably, exploding into actual violence., Parker is one sniff ahead of the bloodhounds. . . . Stark, Westlake's more menacing alter ego, flaunts his usual wizardry as unobtrusively as if he were ordering from a fast-food menu. The plot is minimalist, the technique superb.
Copyright Date
2017
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2017-012487
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