The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Larsson, Stieg
From Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
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From Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks member since 1996
About this Item
A square solid tight clean un-read as new copy. Book three of the Dragon Tattoo trilogy by the late author. This copy has been signed by the translator Rej Keeland. This purchase includes a copy of my ticket for the signing event and a photo of Rej signing books. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Seller Inventory # 027142
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Publisher: KNOPF, New York
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed Copy
Edition: First Edition/First Printing.
Book Type: Book
About this title
This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).
There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death...) --Barry Forshaw
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