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| Author | : Richard Stark |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2017-09-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 022648579X |
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The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: “Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark.” —San Diego Union-Tribune In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the racetrack that fired him. Even in hiding, Parker manages to get up to no good. It’ll be a deadly day at the races . . . “Richard Stark’s Parker crime novels are the ultimate page-turners.” —Jonathan Ames, The Boston Globe “Parker is a blunt instrument of a human being.” —John Hodgman, Parade “Often funny, laced with Stark’s brutally morbid humor . . . fast-moving, tense scenes that drip with potential violence before, inevitably, exploding into actual violence.” —Christopher Bahn, AV Club
| Author | : Richard Stark |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2014-07-02 |
| Genre | : FICTION |
| ISBN | : 9780446595957 |
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In this follow-up to his acclaimed "Nobody Runs Forever," Stark bring back master criminal Parker, who's now on the run from a heist gone terribly wrong.
| Author | : Richard Stark |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2008-04-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849166242 |
Download Breakout Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Even Parker makes mistakes. Locked up in a prison from which no one has ever escaped, it's only a matter of time before the law uncovers his real name - and his extensive criminal past. To get out, Parker must take on the only accomplices he can find - yet his fellow convicts demand a price: help with another job. Their plan has too many weak links. And Parker isn't a man who likes complications. But with a big potential payoff and no other options, Parker is willing to chance it, just this once.
| Author | : Richard Stark |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2017-09-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 022650848X |
Download Nobody Runs Forever Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels Westlake wrote-Breakout, Nobody Runs Forever, Ask the Parrot, and Dirty Money-the University of Chicago Press pulls the ultimate score: for the first time ever, the entire Parker series will be available from a single publisher. Nobody Runs Forever opens a three-part saga with a job at a poker game that sours into a necktie party. When Parker goes in on a messy scam-stealing an armored car-with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job. Featuring new forewords by Chris Holm, Duane Swierczynski, and Laura Lippman-celebrated crime writers, all-these masterworks of noir are the capstone to an extraordinary literary run that will leave you craving more. Written over the course of fifty years, the Parker novels are pure artistry, adrenaline, and logic both brutal and brilliant. Join Parker on his jobs and read them all again or for the first time. But don't talk to the law.
| Author | : Richard Stark |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2011-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0226772837 |
Download The Handle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go, Parker knows the line between success and failure on this score would be exactly the length of the barrel of a .38.
| Author | : Julian Barnes |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2011-06-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307797856 |
Download Flaubert's Parrot Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
| Author | : Peter Carey |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2010-04-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307593010 |
Download Parrot and Olivier in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
| Author | : Richard Stark |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2011-04-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0226772993 |
Download Comeback Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After the bloodbath of Butcher’s Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited. But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker’s as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, “suddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallor”—and the resulting novel, Comeback, showed that neither Stark nor Parker had lost a single step. Knocking over a highly lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masks—some prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels.
| Author | : Richard Stark |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2011-08-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0226770656 |
Download Firebreak Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Parker and his team attempt to get past a mansion's security and heist a Montana millionaire's stolen paintings. No matter how untamed the wilderness, Parker's guaranteed to be the most dangerous predator around.
| Author | : Joanna Burger |
| Publisher | : Villard |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2001-07-03 |
| Genre | : Pets |
| ISBN | : 158836027X |
Download The Parrot Who Owns Me Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Birds are my passion,” says Joanna Burger, “but parrots are my weakness.” Fifteen years ago, when se adopted a neglected, orphaned thirty-six year old parrot named Tiko, she entered on of the most complex relationships of her life. Sullen and hostile when he entered Dr. Burger’s home, Tiko gradually warmed as she carefully persuaded him of her good intentions. Eventually he courted her, building nests inside household furniture during mating season and trying to coax her into them. He nursed her vigilantly through a bout with Lyme disease, regularly preening each strand of hair on the pillow as she slept. For a while he even fought her husband for her attentions, but eventually theirs became a relationship of deep mutual trust. The Parrot Who Owns Me is also the story of the science of birds, and of parrots in particular (America’s third most commonly owned pet, after cats and dogs). Woven into the narrative are insights and fascinating revelations from Joanna Burger’s work — not only about parrots, but about what it means to be human. By turns delightful, hilarious, touching, and enlightening, The Parrot Who Owns Me introduces us to an unforgettable bird and his human companion, whose friendships tells us much about ourselves.
