The Manual of Detection - Softcover

Berry, Jedediah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143116517 ISBN 13: 9780143116516

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2010

Synopsis

"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." --The New Yorker

Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original, The Manual of Detection marks the debut of a prodigious young talent. Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency located in an unnamed city always slick with rain. When Travis Sivart, the agency's most illustrious detective, is murdered, Unwin is suddenly promoted and must embark on an utterly bizarre quest for the missing investigator that leads him into the darkest corners of his soaking, somnolent city. What ensues is a noir fantasy of exquisite craftsmanship, as taut as it is mind- blowing, that draws readers into a dream world that will change what they think about how they think.

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Review:

`Like Sin City, this is a noir fairytale, with the grey-scale, drizzly streets and shabby cafes contrasted by fluorescent, primary colour characters ... Berry's work is reminiscent of the coolest young American novelists - Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold - in its sheer delight at how genre writing can be re-invigorated and re-imagined. THE MANUAL OF DETECTION makes the weird, fantastical world of the unconsciousness seem comically logical - like its subject, it is a dream.'

Book Description:

Raymond Chandler meets Murakami in this inventive reimagining of the classic detetctive novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143116517
• ISBN 13: 9780143116516
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288