Attica Locke
Autor/a de Bluebird, Bluebird
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Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1974
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educació
- Northwestern University
- Professions
- screenwriter
writer - Biografia breu
- Attica Locke is a writer whose first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award, a 2010 NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was longlisted for an Orange Prize in the UK. Attica is also a screenwriter who has written movie and television scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, Dreamworks and Silver Pictures. She was also a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab and is a graduate of Northwestern University. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
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"Black Water Rising" by Attica Locke a Orange January/July (agost 2011)
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Bluebird, Bluebird (A Highway 59 Novel, 1) de Attica Locke
There were parts of this book I liked a lot. The problem I had was there were several things in the plot that threw me completely out of the story. Several instances of characters doing really unintelligent things that made the story feel a little worn and cliched. I did love the setting and the tension caused by racism was ratcheted up to a heart pumping read. Glad I read it but loved the first half and was a little less than excited about the 2nd half.
All the elements of the book fit so well together, the tension & frustrations are real, takes the classic all families have secrets & misdirections to keep me guessing to the end
As usual I forget where I heard about this book. I think I was interested because it tells the story of a black Texas Ranger investigating a couple of murders in a rural east Texas town that pretty much have to be racially motivated. I thought the setting sounded interesting, and the portrayal of Lark, Texas could have set the novel in 1959 rather than the present day, and indeed the motivations and emotions running through the murders seem like they could go back that far. I read through the entire novel (billed as a “thriller” in some of the jacket copy but aside from a few armed standoffs not particularly pulse-quickening) but I can’t give it more than 3 stars here. I wasn’t exactly right about the killer but I was close enough. There was one minor but irritating continuity error that bugged me. And the ending sets it up as if there might be a sequel, or even the first of a series starring the Ranger protagonist, who I wasn’t really all that interested in. So, I’ll stick to better written mysteries.… (més)
I just couldn't get in to this book. As other people have said way too many characters to keep track of at the plantation. Very choppy writing questionable editing but ultimately it was a story I was never able to get into. I would like to try the author's first book and see if it was different.
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- Obres
- 5
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 3,246
- Popularitat
- #7,875
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 206
- ISBN
- 116
- Llengües
- 8
- Preferit
- 3
- Pedres de toc
- 274