Author: MACKENZIE, IAN
Title: City of Strangers
Description: Vintage, UK, 2010. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780099531852 224 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Paul Metzger's life is in a state of disrepair; a writer in his mid-thirties, he is divorced and underacheiving. One winter afternoon he travels into New York to visit three people; an elder half-brother who wants little to do with him; a disgraced, dying father, once infamous as a Nazi sympathiser; and an ex-wife whom Paul still loves.: But Paul soon realises that he is being watched, and it is this fourth, unplanned and violent, encounter that will chanage more than one life, forever. : Review: Ambitious (Adrian Turpin Financial Times): 'The New York of City of Strangers is a lonely, violent place, shadowed by failure and the sins of the past, yet this is no simple neo-noir. There's depth and extension to the world Ian MacKenzie creates for his hero, and brilliant writing on every page. It's hard to believe this is a debut - and that much more exciting (Stewart O'Nan): A novel as grim as it is extraordinary...MacKenzie sets up a New York rampant with alienation and misunderstanding, and his visceral narrative,powered by taut prose and braced with sturdy philosophical and psychological underpinnings, is a winner (Publishers Weekly): Excellent... Relentless... Powerful (Chicago Tribune): A glum gem (William Leith Evening Standard) : Book Description: Family secrets, a fateful encounter, and the strangeness of life in the city: a first novel of polished perfection. Size: 12.9 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm. 224 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Paperback; ISBN: 0099531852. ISBN/EAN: 9780099531852. Inventory No: F246-1124.

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