Snitch World (Green Arcade) - Softcover

Jim Nisbet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604866810 ISBN 13: 9781604866810

Publisher: PM PRESS, 2013

Synopsis

Snitch World is made up of an odd grouping, from the seasoned, petty criminals to the mysterious nouveau femme fatale whose criminal tricks of the trade are born from the new economy. This world is a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up too short, too slow and where the crimes of the night have made way for those committed from the glow of a screen. Jim Nisbet, with his characteristic humour and brilliant prose, creates a world where to trust is to possibly sacrifice all.

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Review:

"Jim Nisbet is a poet . . . [who] resembles no other crime fiction writer. He mixes the irony of Dantesque situations with lyric narration, and achieves a luxuriant cocktail that truly leaves the reader breathless." --"Drood's Review of Mysteries"

"Nisbet's style has overtones of Walker Percy's smooth southern satin, but his characters . . . hark back to the days of James M. Cain's twisted images of morality." --"Toronto Globe-Mail"

"With sharp humor and a poet's ear for language, Nisbet's world may be bleak, but it is frighteningly real." --Fantasticfiction.co.uk

"More accessible than some of his other work, Snitch World is a fun, twisted book, and if as widely read as it should be, will further solidify Nesbit's reputation as a writer's writer." --Ben Terrall, "CounterPunch"

"Another example of absurdist noir from one its foremost practitioners." --Woody Haut, woodyhaut.blogspot.com

"More accessible than some of his other work, "Snitch World "is a fun, twisted book, and if as widely read as it should be, will further solidify Nesbit's reputation as a writer's writer." --Ben Terrall, "CounterPunch"

."..the real entertainment is in Nisbet's prose and vivid depiction of San Francisco. An enjoyable book, both funny and sad in a 'Those days are gone, but the people live on' kind of way." --"10 Bad Habits"

"Missing any book by Nisbet should be considered a crime in all 50 states and maybe against humanity." --Booklist

"Nisbet, who has a cult following, alludes insightfully to the dualities of America's favorite city. Fortyish, homeless, alcoholic petty criminals colliding with well-educated, well-off, amoral, twentysomething grifters." --Thomas Gaughan, Booklist

"The plot is as much about displacement as it is tech spying... Klinger is a textbook noir protagonist faced with economic and personal doom." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Jim Nisbet is the author of five volumes of poetry and nine novels, including The Damned Don't Lie, Dark Companion, which was short-listed for the 2006 Hammett Prize, Lethal Injection, A Moment of Doubt, and Windward Passage. He lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: PM PRESS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1604866810
• ISBN 13: 9781604866810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218