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Cargando... Before the fall (2016 original; edición 2016)por Noah Hawley
Información de la obraBefore the Fall por Noah Hawley (Author) (2016)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a very decent mystery. Well plotted with an interesting and diverse set of characters. What sets it apart , though, is the spot on social commentary about the world we live in. The media cycle, pundits, class warfare, the arts , sports, bullying.The author is a regular Dickens in using peoples interest in murder to shine a light on current societal problems. highly recommended ( ) Flying High Media: Audio Read by:Robert Petkoff Length: `13 hours A private jet takes off from Martha’s Vineyard with a bunch of rich passengers on boards. Also along for the ride are an ex-Israeli security guard and an artist who was invited by one of the passengers. The plane crashes into the Atlantic about 20 minutes after take-off and only two of those on-board survive. It’s a 15 mile swim to shore and it’s night. There’s heavy fog and huge waves. Only two survive, the artist an a four year old boy. As the book rolls along we get to know the major players, and the suspense level is kept high as the authorities try to unravel the cause of the crash. We learn about the pre-flight lives and social circles of those on board. There is a crooked money-launderer with links to the baddies, a good-natured trophy wife, a beautiful Manhattanite, a ‘90s hippy loser, a cute kid, a drowned sister, a nice black cop, a nasty white cop and a farmers’ market. It sounds like the sort of novel I’d normally avoid. But Hawley/ pulls it off. Hawley is best known as a script write and his work for the U.S. film industry shines through in his highly visual writing style. He paints cinematic pictures of the crash, the passengers’ lives before, and the survivors’ lives after. Hawley’s exposure to big media is also evident in his depictions of the Murdoch media empire, specifically of right-wing hosts à la Hannity which are spot on. I can easily recommend this book. There are a couple of gray spots where chapters are devoted to some boring passengers and their sub-plots, but despite these the reader is kept in suspense through to the final pages. The ending was a little too “American”, but we can’t have it all. I enjoyed reading this book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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En una nublada noche de verano, once personas despegan en un jet privado rumbo a Nueva York. Diez de ellas pertenecen a la alta sociedad de Estados Unidos. El undécimo pasajero es Scott Burroughs, un artista en horas bajas. Dieciséis minutos después sucede lo impensable: el avión se estrella en el océano. Solo sobrevivirán el pintor y un niño de cuatro años, último miembro de una familia rica y poderosa. A medida que se descubre la historia de cada uno de los pasajeros, afloran extrañas coincidencias que apuntan a una conspiración. ¿Fue simple casualidad que perecieran en un accidente algunas de las figuras más influyentes de la televisión y de Wall Street? Pronto empieza una campaña de acoso mediático que amenaza con hundir a Scott, quien luchará por mantenerse a flote mientras las autoridades porfían en encontrar la verdad entre los escombros del accidente. Antes de la caída es una novela apasionante y adictiva, que indaga como pocas en la geografía secreta del alma humana, el destino y los lazos que nos unen, sean de sangre o adquiridos. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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