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Night Train (1997) is a comedic parody of American detective novels [1] by the author Martin Amis, named after the song "Night Train", which features twice in the novel.
- Martin Amis
- 1997
2 de out. de 1997 · Ostensibly Night Train is a straight up crime novel, narrated by a female "police" named Mike Hoolihan, who is given the task of investigating the suicide of a young woman named Jennifer Rockwell.
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“A dazzling smart-bomb of a novel that whistles into the police-procedural structure only to blow it to bits…. [Amis] proves he can do autopsies as clinically as Patricia Cornwell and female detectives as convincingly as Lynda La Plante.”
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25 de jul. de 2020 · Morimi Tomihiko masterfully weaves strands of youth and fantasy into spine-tingling ghost stories of sojourns into night. “There’s no place that night doesn’t touch. All the world’s in perpetual night.”
28 de jan. de 2024 · Night Train, a parodic but nevertheless lacerating 1997 novel by the accomplished Martin Amis, son of British novelist Kingsley Amis and a writer who takes on the nightmares of our time such as the Nazis, Stalin and nuclear weapons, is an unusual mystery novel turning on our inevitable and human delving into the nature of….
26 de jan. de 1999 · Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of a classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity. Read more.
Summary. A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England’s finest fiction writers. 'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman.
