The Mexican Tree Duck - Softcover

Crumley, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446677914 ISBN 13: 9780446677912

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 2001

Synopsis

Ex-private eye C.W. Sughrue has been depressed, jobless and living in the basement of a morgue, but now a job has come up. He sets off on an odyssey of liquor, sex and gunplay to find a missing woman who has eluded the FBI and cocaine dealers.

About this title

Review:

Lean, knuckle-crunching prose. "Miami Herald"
Like James Ellroy . . . [Crumley] is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetry. "The Independent" (London)
The journey, with all its wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous, and obscene encounters . . . will stay with the reader after the blood dries.
"The New York Times"
"The pleasures of a James Crumley novel . . . derive mostly from the zing of its characters, the bite of its epigrams ("The bear of real life is waiting for everybody"), and a restless, almost manic vitality--prose on amphetamines. . . . The mix of black humor, violence, and trivia is . . . persuasive, and the setting is evoked as crisply as the landscape of an Ansel Adams photograph."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
Terrific crime-fiction writing. . . . Crumley has a gift for narration. "San Francisco Chronicle"
A surrealistic, raunchy buddy novel. . . . Tough writing with a manic edge and a neat surprise at the end. "New York Daily News
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Powered by sex, drugs, rock n roll, firepower, and a large portion of irreverence, "The Mexican Tree Duck "is one you won t want to miss.
"Rocky Mountain News
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There s [a] hypnotic craziness, that affectation for excess, expressed in profane and compelling and ultimately romantic language, that makes you keep reading "The Mexican Tree Duck." Too much is never even close to enough for Crumley.
"Minneapolis Star Tribune""

Lean, knuckle-crunching prose. Miami Herald
Like James Ellroy . . . [Crumley] is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetry. The Independent (London)
The journey, with all its wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous, and obscene encounters . . . will stay with the reader after the blood dries.
The New York Times
"The pleasures of a James Crumley novel . . . derive mostly from the zing of its characters, the bite of its epigrams ("The bear of real life is waiting for everybody"), and a restless, almost manic vitality--prose on amphetamines. . . . The mix of black humor, violence, and trivia is . . . persuasive, and the setting is evoked as crisply as the landscape of an Ansel Adams photograph."
--Entertainment Weekly
Terrific crime-fiction writing. . . . Crumley has a gift for narration. San Francisco Chronicle
A surrealistic, raunchy buddy novel. . . . Tough writing with a manic edge and a neat surprise at the end. New York Daily News

Powered by sex, drugs, rock n roll, firepower, and a large portion of irreverence, The Mexican Tree Duck is one you won t want to miss.
Rocky Mountain News

There s [a] hypnotic craziness, that affectation for excess, expressed in profane and compelling and ultimately romantic language, that makes you keep reading The Mexican Tree Duck. Too much is never even close to enough for Crumley.
Minneapolis Star Tribune"

About the Author:

James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. After serving three years in the U.S. Army and completing college degrees in history (BA, Texas College of Arts and Industries) and creative writing (MFA, University of Iowa), he joined the English faculty at the University of Montana at Missoula. He was also a visiting professor at a number of other institutions around the country, including the University of Texas at El Paso, Colorado State University, Reed College, and Carnegie-Mellon. His works include a novel of Vietnam, One to Count Cadence, and seven detective novels: The Wrong Case, The Last Good Kiss, Dancing Bear, The Mexican Tree Duck, Bordersnakes, The Final Country, and The Right Madness. He died in Missoula in 2008."

About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0446677914
• ISBN 13: 9780446677912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256