Blood Acre - Hardcover

Landesman, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670882070 ISBN 13: 9780670882076

Publisher: Viking, 1999

Synopsis

Nathan Stein, son and partner of a corrupt and powerful New York criminal lawyer, was once brilliant, beautiful, cultured, and sensitive. Now, on his way to one more shady deal, he wanders the wintry wastes of Coney Island, sick in body and soul, nervously checking his pager and ignoring its clamor. His career and life careening out of control, Nathan knows he is running out of time. What he does not know is that he's about to become a prime suspect in the murder of his paramour and secretary, Isabel Santos. Lurching toward redemption but stumbling into the safe haven of graft, Nathan must answer for all that he has done and for what he has left undone. Is he a murderer or the victim of an elaborate frame-up? Or do his sins go even deeper? The answer unfolds in a hard-bitten, stunningly written work sure to transfix both mystery readers and lovers of fine fiction.

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Review:

Praise for The Raven:

‘An immensely accomplished first novel... Landesman is the equal of E.Annie Proulx in his handling of the fishermen’s hard lives and tangy dialogue. The Raven displays the allegorical power of the best sea stories wedded to the thematic richness and psychological depth of the finest fiction.’
Michael Arditti, The Times

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"A genuine tour de force, an apocalyptic murder mystery that will appeal to readers who like their thrillers in pure noir... Blood Acre deals with financial and sexual corruption and its corrosive effects on the human psyche with all the moral seriousness of a classical tragedy. Not only that, but it demands to be read in a single sitting." Literary Review

"Peter Landesman brings to radiant life a dark, disorienting, and violent vision, rendered in gorgeous prose." Andrea Barrett

"Blood Acre is as compelling as it is, finally, astonishing. Convincing apocalypses come our way very seldom, and this is one. I read it straight through, helpless to quit." REYNOLDS PRICE

"Blood Acre is like forked lightning over Manhattan at 3.00a.m. Peter Landesman will electrify you, he'll illuminate a world. It's not like anything you've ever seen before." PAUL CODY

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670882070
• ISBN 13: 9780670882076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260