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(0)Marcus Stevens
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
viii, 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estranged couple Lewis and Helen Burke gain insights into the meaning of life and their marriage after Lewis's plane is forced to make an emergency landing in the Congo and he escapes into the rain forest to escape capture by rebels, and Helen defies authorities by setting off, along with her seven-year-old blind son, to find him.
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
967 p.
Language
English
Description
Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929) epitomizes the violence and momentum of his Black Mask stories about the anonymous detective the Continental Op, in a raucous and nightmarish evocation of political corruption and gang warfare in a western mining town. In The Dain Curse (1929) the Op returns in a more melodramatic tale involving jewel theft, drugs, and a religious cult. With The Maltese Falcon (1930) and its protagonist...