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Beschreibung
In the middle of a cyclone, beautiful, red-haired Sunset Jones shoots her husband Pete dead when he tries to beat and rape her. To Camp Rapture’s general consternation, Sunset’s mother-in-law arranges for her to take over from Pete as town constable. As if that weren’t hard enough to swallow in depression era east Texas, Sunset actually takes the job seriously, and her investigation into a brutal double murder pulls her into a maelstrom of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. It is a case that will require a well of inner strength she never knew she had. Spirited and electrifying, Sunset and Sawdust is a mystery and a tale like nothing you’ve read before.
Kommentare in Metadaten
"A Hap and Leonard novel."
Kommentare in Metadaten
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Alternativtitel
The Two-Bear Mambo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (3) (Hap and Leonard Series)
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Savage Season: A Hap and Leonard Novel (1) (Hap and Leonard Series)
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Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
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Bad Chili: A Hap and Leonard Novel (4) (Hap and Leonard Series)
Alternativtitel
Sunset and sawdust : a novel
Alternativer Autor
by Joe R. Lansdale
Alternativer Autor
Lansdale, Joe R.
Alternativer Verlag
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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Mysterious Press
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Vintage Books
Alternative Ausgabe
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed., New York, New York (State), 2009
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First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, New York, 2005
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1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed, New York, NY, 2004
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New York, 1997
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Reprint, 2005
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Reissue, 2009
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Reprint, 2009
Alternative Beschreibung
<p><P>Full of savage humor, heart-stopping suspense, and a cast of characters so tough they could chew the bumper off a pickup truck, The Two Bear Mambo is classic country noir.<P>In this rollicking, rollercoaster ride of a novel, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take a break from their day jobs to search for Florida Grange, Leonard’s drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap’s former lover, who has vanished in the Klan-infested East Texas town of Grovetown. Before she disappeared, Florida was digging up some dirt behind the mysterious jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman’s son, who was in possession of some priceless merchandise. To Hap and Leonard, something don’t smell right. With murder on their minds, Hap and Leonard set out to investigate as only they know how...chaotically.<P>“Lansdale has a zest for storytelling and a gimlet eye for detail.” Entertainment Weekly<P>“Lansdale’s prose, both laconic and sarcastic, is so thick with slang and regional accent that it’s as tasty as a well-cured piece of beef jerky. Readers will want to savor each bite.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Veteran Lansdale brings back his incomparable Texas team of narrator Hap Collins and Leonard Pine for an encore that's just as funny and violent and gripping as their first appearance in Mucho Mojo. Police Lt. Marve Hanson agrees to forget the duo's role in the Christmas Eve torching of a crack house if they go to the small East-Texas town of Grovetown to find his girlfriend (also Hap's ex), lawyer Florida Grange, who was investigating the jailhouse death of a black man who possessed some valuable old blues recordings. The Klan is alive and well in Grovestown and Hap, who is white, and Leonard, who is black and gay and habitually introduces himself as ``The Smartest nigg*r In The World,'' don't endear themselves to the locals. But they do track Florida to a dilapidated trailer park, where her trail ends. The conclusion, which involves a graveyard and an epic flood, is gruesome, frightening and captivating. Throughout, Lansdale intersperses some horrific and hilarious anecdotes (one is about a chihuahua that comes to a bad end: ``Yeeech,'' says Leonard. ``I'm just glad it wasn't a real dog''). This is strong stuff, filled with sexual references and violent racism. The mystery involves what happened to Florida and what happened to the dead man's music. But the heart of the tale is the friendship of Hap and Leonard, which is rendered by Lansdale in perfectly pitched, profanity-laced repartee and guided throughout by a strong moral compass. (Sept.)</p>
Alternative Beschreibung
<p>hap And Leonard Are Back! Fresh On The Cult-inspiring Success Of <i>mucho Mojo</i> And <i>the Two-bear Mambo</i>, Joe R. Lansdale, East Texas's Most Stellar Mythic Chronicler, Returns With This Triumph--an Adventure Told In The Darkly Suspenseful Mode, Leavened With Postmodern Good Ol' Boy Humor, That Forms The Lansdale Signature.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>the Opening Attack Of A Rabid Squirrel Leaves Hap Collins, Returning From Mucho Mojo And Two-bear Mambo, With A Prescription For A Series Of Shots. Luckily, Nurse Brett Is A Doll, Albeit Somewhat Foul-mouthed. Hap And His Tough, Gay, Black Sidekick Leonard Pine Drive Another Brutally Funny R-rated Crime Caper In Picturesque East Texas. Leonard's Lover, Raul, Has Left Him For A Biker Called Horse Dick, Whose Subsequent Death By Shotgun Is Attributed To Leonard. Another Death And The News That Horse Dick Had A Hidden Identity Revs Up Hap's Investigation. The Trail He And Leonard Follow Leads To One Weird Scheme To Sell Restaurant Grease On The Black Market And Another One Involving Videos Of Young Gay Men Being Realistically Beaten Up. The Cast Of Likely Criminals Includes A Chili Magnate; A Former Professional Wrestler Who Enjoys Applying Electricity To Tender Male Body Parts, Including Hap's; A Hairdresser With A Suspicious French Accent; And The Unforgettable Jim Bob Luke, A Rough-edged Pi Who Makes Leonard Look Like A Sissy. Brett Is Probably Overwritten Some, And Her Supposed Demise Isn't Slightly Believable, But The Rest Of The Narrative, Including A Breathless Finale, Is Droll, Crude, Touching And Very Nasty. Lansdale Elicits At Least One Good Chuckle Per Page, And There May Be No Living Author Who Commands More Vernacular Terms For The Myriad Sexual Acts Available To Consenting And Non-consenting Adults. In This Author's Hands, Extravagant, Lovable Characters Mix With Outrageous, Despicable Actions To Irresistible Effect. Major Ad/promo.(sept.)</p>
Alternative Beschreibung
<p><p>Sunset Jones has just killed her husband. Never mind that he was raping her. Pete Jones was constable of a small sawmill settlement called Camp Rapture, where no woman refuses her husband. So everyone is angrily surprised when, thanks to the amazing understanding of her mother-in-law - who owns three-quarters of the mill - Sunset becomes the new constable and begins to investigate the murders of a woman and unborn baby in which her late husband might be implicated. Yet, no one is more surprised than Sunset when the murders lead her - through a labyrinth of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice - not only to the conclusion of the case, but to a well of inner strength she never knew she had.</p><h3>The New York Times</h3><p>In language as raw and leathery as the people who make their hard living in this Depression-era company town, Lansdale lets us hear the prevailing rural wisdom about women who take care of business on their own terms. ''I don't think a woman ought to just be able to shoot a husband, she wants to,'' one man says. ''Get that started, things in ever kind of way will get turned over and sat on.'' And that goes double for the cowed black workers, who are the first to benefit from Sunset's fair-minded, if unorthodox, methods of enforcing the law in matters ranging from lynchings to land fraud. Soon Sunset has her own posse, including a wonderful dog whose abject adoration of the fiery gunslinger pretty much sums up this reader's feelings. — <i>Marilyn Stasio</i></p>
Alternative Beschreibung
<p>A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.</p>
<p>Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn’t be more different. Hap is an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a black, gay Vietnam vet. Together, they stir up more commotion than a fire storm. But that’s just the way they like it. So when as ex-flame of Hap’s returns promising a huge score, Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that’s when things get interesting. Chockful of action and laughs, Savage Season is the masterpiece of dark suspense that introduced Hap and Leonard to the thriller scene. It hasn’t been the same since.</p>
<p>"The most consistently original and originally visceral writer the great state of Texas (or any other state for that matter) has seen in a score of flashpoint summers." - The Austin Chronicle</p>
<p>"Lansdale has an unsettling sensibility. Be thankful he crafts such wild tall tales." - Chicago Sun-Times</p>
<p>Hap and Leonard are two friends who are always looking for a fast buck. So when Hap's old flame, Trudy, waltzes back into town with a money-making scam, it sounds easy--a quick dive into the icy Sabine River for a half-million dollars in lost hold-up money. But things go bad, and when Hap and Leonard meet Soldier, they know they've entered a nightmare with no escape.
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Alternative Beschreibung
<p>Hap and Leonard return in this incredible, mad-dash thriller, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count.</p>
<p>Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo's last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend, and when the two are cleaning up Uncle Chester's dilapidated house, they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house's rotting floor boards—a small skeleton buried in a trunk. Hap wants to call the police. Leonard, being a black man in east Texas, persuades him this is not a good idea, and together they set out to clear Chester's name on their own. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.</p>
<p>When Leonard Pine and his friend Hap Collins clean out the house of Leonard's just-dead Uncle Chester, they dig up more than dust. A small skeleton wrapped in p*rnographic magazines is unearthed--along with questions about Chester's involvement in a series of child murders.
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Alternative Beschreibung
Dopo mesi di lavoro su una piattaforma petrolifera, Hap Collins è tornato a casa, determinato a cambiare vita. L'amico di sempre, Leonard Pine, è invece intristito per la fine della sua relazione con l'amato Raul. I guai veri e propri cominciano subito dopo. Un biker locale, soprannominato Cazzo-di-Cavallo, è trovato morto e Leonard pare coinvolto nell'omicidio. Tanto per non smentirsi, gli sbirri brancolano nel buio. Per aiutare l'amico, Hap non solo infrange la legge, la calpesta brutalmente. Tutto questo mentre perde la testa per Brett Sawyer, un'infermiera con un passato da dimenticare e due bellissime gambe, e i cadaveri continuano a saltar fuori nei posti piú impensati. Infine, ci sarebbe da chiarire la posizione di King Arthur, il re del chili, che pare coinvolto in un mare di attività , lecite o illecite. Se poi a qualcuno venisse in mente che in una storia del genere manca solo un tornado da Guinness dei primati, be', gli diremmo che è sulla buona strada.
Alternative Beschreibung
Intrigue, chilling suspense and hair-raising horror will freeze you to the bones as you read this novel. In the hellish July heat, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine clean out the house of Leonard's just-dead Uncle Chester. However, as they clear away the filth, they uncover a dirty secret. Beneath the rotting floorboards, Hap and Leonard unearth a small skeleton, wrapped in p*rno magazines. Thinking white, Hap wants to call the cops. Leonard, versed in the unwritten codes of his black neighborhood, persuades Hap otherwise. Together they're about to clear Chester's name sans outside reinforcementÂas they dig up the deepest, ugliest truth of all under the blister of an East Texas sun!
Alternative Beschreibung
In the middle of a cyclone, beautiful, red-haired Sunset Jones shoots her husband Pete dead when he tries to beat and rape her. To Camp Rapture's general consternation, Sunset's mother-in-law arranges for her to take over from Pete as town constable. As if that weren't hard enough to swallow in depression era east Texas, Sunset actually takes the job seriously, and her investigation into a brutal double murder pulls her into a maelstrom of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. It is a case that will require a well of inner strength she never knew she had. Spirited and electrifying, Sunset and Sawdust is a mystery and a tale like nothing you've read before
Alternative Beschreibung
Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's son. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the investigating the good ol' boy cops can't--or won't--do themselves. Lansdale's new hardcover, Bad Chili, is due for release in August.
Alternative Beschreibung
Sleuth Hap Collins and his black sidekick go after a gang of gay-bashers. The gang makes videotapes as they rape, torture and murder hom*osexuals. The setting is Texas
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2021-05-18
