The 25th Hour (1st edition/2nd printing)

David Benioff

ISBN 10: 0786707720 / ISBN 13: 9780786707720

Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York, 2000

About this Item

Unread Hardcover. 1st Edition/2nd Printing. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in Brodart dust cover. Author's debut novel, short listed for the 2002 John Creasey Award and made into film directed by Spike Lee starring Edward Norton. Was one of the writers of Game of Thrones. Simply pristine, an extremely clean and crisp copy from my personal smoke-free collection.Seller is the original and only owner of this book. Not a remainder or EX-LIB. A GIFT QUALITY COPY. You'll not likely find a finer copy! Delivered to you in a box, never in an envelope. Seller Inventory # 000694

Bibliographic Details

Title: The 25th Hour (1st edition/2nd printing)

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

As he prepares to leave the next day for the federal prison in Otisville to serve out a seven-year sentence, Monty Brogan joins his two best friends--bond trader Frank Slattery and English teacher Jakob Elinsky--on a final night on the town, unaware that Monty has a shocking plan for the evening. A first novel.

Review:

This character-driven crime novel is a spellbinding portrait of three friends confronting the consequences of their carefree youth on the streets of New York. (From the Publisher's Description)

Acerbically captivating first novel . . . Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires (New York Times)

As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city's possibilities and unsatisfied longings (New Yorker)

David Benioff's headlong suspense novel is a deceptively simple chronicle of [Monty's] final day of freedom . . . Working in a novelistic form of "real time", Benioff shows a knack for critiquing his genre while revitalising its cliches . . . Instead of yielding mere irony, the author, in his first novel, achieves both pathos and excitement (Entertainment Weekly)

Brilliantly conceived, this gripping crime drama boasts dead-on dialogue, chiaroscuro portraits of New York's social strata and an inescapable crescendo of tension. Monty's solution to his agonising dilemmas will shock even hardened suspense lovers (Publishers Weekly)