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Sobre El Autor
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- New Zealand
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Auckland, New Zealand - Educación
- Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short story writer - Premios y honores
- Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship (2001)
Auckland University Literary Fellowship (2003) - Biografía breve
- Born and educated in Auckland, where his work is largely set, he graduated BFA at Elam and has carried that interest into the strong visual quality of his writing.
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Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 160
- Popularidad
- #131,702
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 31
- Idiomas
- 3
BLUE HOTEL is darkest crime noir. It takes place in old fashioned newsrooms, questionable newsagencies, seedy bars, S&M clubs and cars. It's as New Zealand-as, but it's not. Moody is as New Zealand-as, but he's not. He's a lone wolf by personal preference, a private investigator for distraction purposes, and equal parts good bloke / absolute waster. The reader is free to choose which applies at many many points in the story.
Styled as a traditional private eye, noir story, the backstory of Moody, and his wife in particular, reveal themselves as he doggedly pursues a really odd disappearance. In 1987, leather-clad (in not the right weather for that sort of attire) tourist Blanca Nul walks out of a small-town bar in quiet rural New Zealand and vanishes. Moody gets a lead on her past life as a porn model, only to crash his car, lose his job and commence a long, slow life stuff-up adding the recovery from serious injuries to the things he gets wrong. When Blanca is sighted a year after her original disappearance, Moody seizes on this as a way to get, at least, his career back on track. Which the reader will always know is going to tank on him, but how and why might surprise.
Fans of noir are going to enjoy BLUE HOTEL. It's structured exactly as you'd expect of an entry in the genre, and it works in the setting and timeline the author has constructed. Moody is a perfect example of a lone-wolf, seedy, slightly pathetic noir hero (? anti-hero), full of personal angst and questionable decisions, clawing himself precariously towards high-moral ground on occasions, with a decidedly shaky grip all the way.
Loved this book, summed up a lot by this final line from the blurb:
"As he searches for the real story Ray will learn how desperate, damaged and lonely people from all walks of life can be, and that the truth is hard-won and painful."
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