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Title: Galveston
Author: Nic Pizzolatto
Narrator: Michael Kramer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-11-14
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
From the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere.
Roy Cady is by his own admission 'a bad man'. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss' lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.
Before Roy makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman in the apartment, and sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a crucial decision. He takes her with him on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas, permanently entwining their fate along a highway of seedy bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pick-up trucks, and ashed-out hopes, with death just a car-length behind.
Nic Pizzolatto's highly acclaimed, Edgar Award-nominated thriller announces the arrival of a major new talent for fans of Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke, and Breaking Bad.
Critic Reviews:
"Galveston is an assured debut full of hard truths, a throwback novel that ends up shouldering the noir genre forward" (Chuck Hogan)
"A carefully crafted work shrouded in dark Southern landscapes" (Time Out Chicago)
"An often incandescent fever dream of low-rent, unbearable beauty , Galveston," in its authenticity and fearless humanism, recalls only the finest examples of the form" (The New York Times)
"There are resonances of the great James Lee Burke in the elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story that makes it unforgettable" (Daily Mail)
Members Reviews:
very good
very hard core, but nothing cheezy which I really appreciated. It's a gripping story and I really enjoyed the narration.
Great Listening to
Michael Kramer did a very good job narrating the book. It was a great first novel for Nic Pizzolatto.
No Happy Ending (or beginning or middle)
This tightly crafted book is literary noir at its finest. The central character is a bad man through and through and yet the author, displays his considerable writing skills, by managing to elicit the reader's sympathy for the unrepentant hoodlum. There is plenty of tragedy in this book, very little redemption and no happy endings, all of which you are made fully aware of in the first few pages. This is not a thriller, a lightweight, easy read for taking to the beach. It is a serious work of fiction. If you approach it as such, you will enjoy it and it will linger in your mind for a long time to come.
Disappointing
Very ordinary, sadly. Galveston never manages to do anything new or fresh; it just sits stolidly within the confines of crime fiction.
Very dark, but compelling
Any additional comments?
This is a good story, dark, but compelling. I mostly didn't want to put it down. The narration was good, but relentlessly gloomy and monotone. The style fitted the novel, but the it may have been five star, had there been moments of a change in tone. I look forward to more books by this author.