Galveston: A Novel Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B003S83080 | Format: PDF
Galveston: A Novel Description
From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO series True Detective and soon to be a major motion picture comes a dark and visceral novel set along the wastelands of Galveston.
On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, and after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.
Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas-an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl's name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy-and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston's country-western bars and seedy hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes.
Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 7 hours and 24 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Tantor Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: June 15, 2010
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003S83080
If you've forgotten why they call it "noir," it's time to read "Galveston," a blistering debut novel from Nic Pizzolotto that will whipsaw your emotions like a trip through a Gulf hurricane to reach the eye - a terrifying mystery edged with clever foreshadowing by way of parallel storylines twenty years apart.
Roy Cady is a 40 year old hit man for a second class New Orleans gangster, a gnarly mountain of a man who conjures the image of "Dog" from "The Bounty Hunter." On the same day he is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, the chain-smoking, hard-drinking Roy is sent out on a new leg breaking mission that he suspects may have some extra twists of its own. It is there that he meets and is soon on the run with Raquel "Rocky" Arceneaux, an 18 year old hooker. Stopping along their flight from New Orleans, Roy and Rocky stop in Texas long enough to pick up Rocky's 3 year old sister. But if you're thinking this is sounding like the stereotyped whore-with-a-heart-of-gold tale where a sassy Julia Roberts-type breaks down the crusty outer layers of the hardened criminal to reach the mushy stuff inside - don't trouble yourself. This is about as sentimental as Cormac McCarthy - as far from feel good puff as doing hard time in Angola. Pizzolotto's cast is chainsaw-hewn from cedar swamp logs - rough and splintery with jagged edges and not much soft parts. He writes of the Gulf's seedy underbelly - of clam shell parking lots and busted beer bottles, broken down motels and the broken people that frequent them. Yet beyond the violence and grit there is a poignant and almost passionate tale - a searing lesson in human wreckage; a reminder that life is not fair and redemption is rare.
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