The Speed Queen - Softcover
Sitting on death row, the Speed Queen is telling how main-lining speed turned into dealing, how dealing turned into robbery, and robbery into mass murder, spEaking in the tape recorder of Stephen King, who will write her story. Set against a uniquely American landscape of fast-food joints and endless highways, this darkly comic tale tells of lives in uncontrollable overdrive. 'THE SPEED QUEEN is a terrific novel; gripping, quirky, funny, violent and heart breaking. I haven't read a better book so far this year' - NICK HORNBY
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Sitting on Death Row, the Speed Queen tells how mainlining speed turned into dealing, how dealing turned into robbery, and robbery turned into mass murder. Set against an American landscape of fast-food joints and endless highways, this comic tale tells of lives in uncontrollable overdrive.
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Stewart O'Nan lives in America, and is the award-winning author of SNOW ANGELS, THE NAMES OF THE DEAD and IN THE WALLED CITY. He was named as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 1996.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140265953
- ISBN 13 9780140265958
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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