Citizen Vince - Softcover
Vince's real name is Marty Hagen. A career criminal from New Jersey, he has been given a new identity in a sleepy Northwest city by the Witness Protection Program. Since he testified against the hoods he used to run with, his rights have been restored - including his right to vote, something he's never done. For Vince, voting in the Presidential election becomes the most important thing in his life - proof that even a guy like him can change.
But while Vince is busy remaking himself, his past arrives in town in the form of a contract killer that he recognises from his old life. Has he come to kill Vince?
With three days left until the election, Vince must duck crooks, cops and an implacable killer, as he tries to figure out a way to save himself, and his dreams.
A suspenseful crime story, a moving love story and a superb evocation of time and place, CITIZEN VINCE is a truly memorable novel from an acclaimed author.
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Splendidly entertaining, thoughtful (Sunday Telegraph)
A tasty novel. Funny, sad, mad, scary ... I liked it a lot. (Independent on Sunday)
Refreshing ... entertaining ... [with] wry precision and expert timing (New York Times)
It's been a long time since I've read a book as compulsively, indeed greedily, as I read CITIZEN VINCE. Here are characters who seem to live of their own volition, who talk out of a terrible inner need to make themselves known and understood, who reveal not just themselves but the yearning heart of our great flawed democracy. (Richard Russo, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of EM)
A nerve-tingling narrative (Manchester City Life)
Dazzling ... wry dialogue ... agile prose ... and a finely tuned plot. (Seattle Times)
Utterly inventive ... excruciatingly breathless (Washington Post Book World)
Admirably unpredictable ... always engrossing. Walter's best by far. (Kirkus Reviews)
CITIZEN VINCE is fresh and different - a gritty story of betrayal, and an extended riff on life, death and politics. Walter is a literary talent writ large. (Boston Globe)
This tale of unlikely redemption works because of Walter's virtuoso command of character and dialogue - along with a wicked second-act twist (Booklist)
Intelligently written, bittersweet and thoroughly absorbing. (Seattle Times, on OVER TUMBLED GRAVES)
Jess Walter has just about lapped the field with his superior first novel OVER TUMBLED GRAVES. The suspense and surprises are terrific, but best of all are the characters he has managed to create. (James Patterson on OVER TUMBLED GRAVES)
Walter renders his blind land with a clear-eyed, compassionate vision. (Kirkus Reviews, on LAND OF THE BLIND)
A most accomplished debut. (Sunday Telegraph, on OVER TUMBLED GRAVES)
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A tasty novel. Funny, sad, mad, scary ... I liked it a lot. (Independent on Sunday)
Refreshing ... entertaining ... [with] wry precision and expert timing (New York Times)
It's been a long time since I've read a book as compulsively, indeed greedily, as I read CITIZEN VINCE. Here are characters who seem to live of their own volition, who talk out of a terrible inner need to make themselves known and understood, who reveal not just themselves but the yearning heart of our great flawed democracy. (Richard Russo, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of EM)
A nerve-tingling narrative (Manchester City Life)
Dazzling ... wry dialogue ... agile prose ... and a finely tuned plot. (Seattle Times)
Utterly inventive ... excruciatingly breathless (Washington Post Book World)
Admirably unpredictable ... always engrossing. Walter's best by far. (Kirkus Reviews)
CITIZEN VINCE is fresh and different - a gritty story of betrayal, and an extended riff on life, death and politics. Walter is a literary talent writ large. (Boston Globe)
This tale of unlikely redemption works because of Walter's virtuoso command of character and dialogue - along with a wicked second-act twist (Booklist)
Intelligently written, bittersweet and thoroughly absorbing. (Seattle Times, on OVER TUMBLED GRAVES)
Jess Walter has just about lapped the field with his superior first novel OVER TUMBLED GRAVES. The suspense and surprises are terrific, but best of all are the characters he has managed to create. (James Patterson on OVER TUMBLED GRAVES)
Walter renders his blind land with a clear-eyed, compassionate vision. (Kirkus Reviews, on LAND OF THE BLIND)
A most accomplished debut. (Sunday Telegraph, on OVER TUMBLED GRAVES)
The totally absorbing and evocative new thriller from the writer of OVER TUMBLED GRAVES and LAND OF THE BLIND.
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- PublisherRivages
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 2743619481
- ISBN 13 9782743619480
- BindingPaperback
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