| The Snowman Contributor(s): Fauser, Jörg (Author), Bell, Anthea (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1904738052 ISBN-13: 9781904738053 Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: "Prose that penetrates the reader's mind like speed, fast paced, without an ounce of fat."-Weltwoche He's found five pounds of top--quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pur-sued by the police and drug traffickers the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine addict and dealer. This is a fast-paced thriller written with acerbic humour, a hardboiled evocation of drug-fuelled existence and a penetrating observation of those at the edge of German society. Having broken his addiction to on heroin at the age of thirty, Jrg Fauser spent much of the rest of his life dependent on alcohol. He died aged forty-three in 1987, run over by a truck at four am on a German highway. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.16" W x 7.9" (0.53 lbs) 190 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "Prose that penetrates the reader's mind like speed, fast paced, without an ounce of fat."--Weltwoche He's found five pounds of top--quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pur-sued by the police and drug traffickers the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine addict and dealer. This is a fast-paced thriller written with acerbic humour, a hardboiled evocation of drug-fuelled existence and a penetrating observation of those at the edge of German society. Having broken his addiction to on heroin at the age of thirty, J rg Fauser spent much of the rest of his life dependent on alcohol. He died aged forty-three in 1987, run over by a truck at four am on a German highway. |