Shadow Ticket PB

Εκδότης: VINTAGE
Συγγραφέας: Thomas Pynchon
Isbn: 9781529972030
Διαστάσεις: 198Χ129Χ35
Αριθμός σελίδων: 352
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 14/10/2026
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Τιμή: ~~14,56 €~~ 13,10 €

Περιγραφη

"A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape. ‘A masterpiece… A vintage tale of adventure’ Daily Telegraph ‘Swing bands, spies and surreal danger… A wild ride’ i Paper ‘Brilliant fun… Rollicking’ Washington Post Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heire