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George P. Pelecanos

Autor/a de The Night Gardener

42+ obres 10,916 Membres 295 Ressenyes 42 preferits

Sobre l'autor

George P. Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 1957. Before becoming an author, he worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman. His first novel, A Firing Offense, was published in 1992. His other books include Nick's Trip, Shoedog, King Suckerman, Right mostra'n més as Rain, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, and What It Was. He has received numerous awards including the Raymond Chandler award in Italy, the Falcon award in Japan, and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir in France. Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 2003 and 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has served as producer on the feature films Caught (1996), Whatever (1998) and BlackMale (1999). He was a producer, writer, and story editor for the HBO series, The Wire, which won the Peabody Award and the AFI Award. He was also a writer and co-producer on the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific and an executive producer and writer on the HBO series Treme. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 2008

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Obres de George P. Pelecanos

The Night Gardener (2006) 1,249 exemplars
Right as Rain (2001) 839 exemplars
Hell to Pay (2002) 772 exemplars
Hard Revolution (2004) 707 exemplars
The Turnaround (2008) 679 exemplars
Drama City (2005) 675 exemplars
Soul Circus (2003) 620 exemplars
The Way Home (2009) 540 exemplars
Shame the Devil (2000) 515 exemplars
The Cut (2011) 481 exemplars
King Suckerman (1997) 421 exemplars
The Sweet Forever (1998) 396 exemplars
A Firing Offense (1992) 391 exemplars
The Big Blowdown (1996) 382 exemplars
Nick's Trip (1993) 311 exemplars
What It Was (2012) 260 exemplars
The Double (2013) 254 exemplars
The Man Who Came Uptown (2018) 252 exemplars
Shoedog (1994) 250 exemplars
D.C. Noir (2006) — Editor — 193 exemplars
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (2008) — Editor & Introduction — 167 exemplars
D.C. Noir 2: The Classics (2008) — Editor; Col·laborador — 63 exemplars
Hell to Pay/Right as Rain (2002) 20 exemplars
Owning Up: New Fiction (2024) 14 exemplars
The Deuce: The Complete First Season [2017 TV Series] (2017) — Creator — 11 exemplars
The Deuce: The Complete Second Season [2017 TV Series] (2018) — Creator — 3 exemplars
Prisoners (2019) 2 exemplars
Lo que fue (2013) 1 exemplars
Buster: A Dog (2024) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Hardly Knew Her (2008) — Introducció — 283 exemplars
True Confessions (1977) — Introducció, algunes edicions261 exemplars
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) — Col·laborador — 204 exemplars
The Wire: Season 1 (2004) — Writer, algunes edicions117 exemplars
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series (2013) — Col·laborador — 83 exemplars
OxCrimes (2014) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
Murder at the Foul Line (1911) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Crime Stories (2007) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing (2012) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Ink and Daggers (2023) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Downtown Silver Spring (2010) — Pròleg — 4 exemplars

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Humor, music, alcolholism, murder... it's a fast-paced combination of all that.

Nick Stefanos knows bartending, cars, guns, music... I don't really need or like all those music references, it feels meh.

It's fun otherwise, if I happen to find a few more of the series for cheap, I'd take them.
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cwebb | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Mar 5, 2024 |
Novellas set in the Washington DC area. Not Pelecanos' usual crime fare. Instead he delves into stories about families and coming-of-age. These are well-crafted stories that mix local color with believable characters, interesting plots and plenty of historical context. I liked how he followed his protagonists forward in time at the end. Totally engaging.
 
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ozzer | Feb 27, 2024 |
I think I expected something more literary, so I was disappointed by the stock characters and all the paragraphs full of boring (to me) details. Honestly, why name every street Spero takes to get from location to location? Does anyone doubt that you know the names of streets in Washington, Mr. Pelecanos? And why name every brand of every piece of clothing worn? Why name every musician Spero listens to? All of this came off as so much name dropping to me, as clunky as a paid product placement. If you took out all of these annoying, pointless details the book would've been a lot shorter and probably better.

The mystery itself wasn't bad. It surrounded a supposedly non-violent marijuana dealer who wanted Spero Lucas, a late-twenties war vet and unlicensed investigator, to track down some lost packages. During his investigation, which he conducts largely by iPhone (as we're told again and again--why not just say phone?), Spero exercises a lot, hangs out with other veterans, and beds beautiful women in a decent but emotionally empty way.

I liked the stuff about Spero being adopted by a Greek couple and being raised Greek along with other adopted siblings. The scenes with Spero and his family actually explored some interesting relationships and had a little character development. For the most part, though, Spero is your typical mass market hero: tough, troubled, and the only female characters in his world are his mother and the hot women he sleeps with.
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LibrarianDest | Hi ha 39 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
42
També de
15
Membres
10,916
Popularitat
#2,167
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
295
ISBN
520
Llengües
16
Preferit
42

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