Amazon.com A policeman and a young girl drive across the Mojave Desert toward a deathly quiet valley where the girl's mother waits. In a wealthy Los Angeles enclave, another man waits for news of the policeman's death. Cop John Victor Sully is in the wrong place at the wrong time, ready to convict the right man of the right crime--and that, for crooked developer Burgess Ridden and his heroin-addict girlfriend Dee Storey, will never do. Burgess may not have the guts or the smarts to save himself from impending disaster, but Dee will do anything, including making her 13-year-old daughter, Shay, an accessory to murder: "Like face cards their images resemble, flat and stoic on that black gaming table of a windshield. Two queens, baby. One there, and one on the come. If she lives long enough." But the best-laid plans are those that go hideously awry. Sully survives that night in the desert, clawing up through the dirt of a shallow grave, only to become "a boundary walker trapped inside the self of past." His reputation ruined by a clever frame-up, he will spend the next 10 years in self-imposed exile until a journalist named Landshark brings him back to L.A. to clear his name. His return touches off a deadly "blood waltz across reality" in which lives count for nothing and survival is everything--and in which his only ally is the young woman who led him to his death a decade earlier. Boston Teran stunned critics with his debut novel, God Is a Bullet. Most raved about its explosive prose and in-your-face action, though a few felt that the author's style was a bit too much of a good thing. Teran is admittedly a writer for whom excess is glorious and for whom language is a wondrous, near-tangible commodity. His second novel, however, reveals a definite maturation: if God Is a Bullet reveled perhaps a bit too much in its own linguistic conceit, Never Count Out the Dead never allows the brilliance of its language to cast all else into shadow. Taut rather than bloated, the novel is as edgy as a hollow-eyed junkie and as extravagant as a drift of desert orchids. Teran retakes the stage with the assurance of an elegantly seasoned performer.--Kelly Flynn --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Award-winning crime novelist Teran jars the soul with this chaotic, murderous tale set in a sunbaked, nightmarish Los Angeles County. Dee Storey is a 28-year-old speed addict who will do anything to get more drugs from dating slimy Beverly Hills rich boy Burgess Ridden to carrying out a contract killing. Using her 13-year-old daughter, Shay, as bait, Dee shoots Sheriff John Victor Sully in the Mojave National Preserve, dumping him in a shallow grave. His bullet-ridden body buys the silence of coke dealer Charlie Foreman, the man who knows all the secrets behind two major school construction projects run by Ridden's father. It will be nearly 11 years before Shay, Dee, Charlie, Burgess and a comical cross-section of Southern California scumbags learn an important lesson--never count out the dead. Miraculously surviving only to be slammed with trumped-up drug charges, Sully flees to El Paso, utterly lost and broken. Enter agoraphobic William Worth, owner of the Garden of Allah hotel and a biting L.A. columnist who writes under the byline "Landshark." Smelling something foul, Landshark urges Sully to come back to Los Angeles to haul Ridden and the crew to justice. Once in the city, Sully unknowingly becomes sexually involved with the now 23-year-old streetwise vixen, Shay Storey, ordered again by her mother to execute him. Fate has other plans, however, and a showdown is set in San Frasquito Canyon. Teran's razor-sharp tale is tinged with pseudoreligious sentiment as the author unravels an expansive and layered network of crimes committed by desperate people attempting to shed their own skin and the silent "dead" who long for resurrection. (May)Forecast: Teran's first novel, God Is a Bullet, was nominated for an Edgar. This, his second, cements his status as a pulp virtuoso with a gothic sensibility. Unless fans get the word out, though, the book may fall through the cracks, since it isn't backed by any kind of marketing effort and will likely glean few reviews as a genre title. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews
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这部作品的文字功底令人叹为观止,简直是一场文学盛宴。我很少遇到能将如此复杂的概念用如此优雅、近乎诗意的语言表达出来的作者。它的美感不是那种浮于表面的华丽辞藻堆砌,而是一种渗透到骨子里的结构之美。每一个段落都仿佛经过了精心打磨,即便是描述最残酷的场景,作者也能找到恰到好处的措辞来平衡其冲击力,使其在残忍中透出一种令人心碎的悲怆。我发现自己会时不时地停下来,仅仅是为了重读某一个绝妙的比喻,或是那句如同箴言般精辟的论断。这种阅读体验是沉浸式的、近乎冥想的。它迫使你慢下来,去感受文字背后的韵律和深意。与那些追求速度和信息轰炸的快餐文学不同,这本书要求读者投入心神,与之进行一场严肃的对话。它在构建世界观上的细致程度令人咋舌,无论是历史的演变,还是社会结构的微妙差异,都处理得滴水不漏,构建了一个立体且令人信服的平行宇宙。
评分这本书的氛围营造简直是教科书级别的范例。它成功地营造了一种持续的、令人不安的疏离感,即使在描绘最亲密的场景时,也能感受到角色之间那道无形的、无法逾越的鸿沟。作者擅长运用环境来烘托心境,那些阴郁的街道、永恒的黄昏,或者那反复出现的特定声响,都不仅仅是背景,它们是故事本身的有机组成部分。我甚至能“闻到”书页上散发出的那种潮湿、陈旧的气味,仿佛真的置身于那个被时间遗忘的角落。这种强烈的代入感,源于作者对感官细节的精准捕捉。更绝的是,作者似乎对“留白”的艺术有着深刻的理解,很多至关重要的信息和冲突都是通过暗示而非直白叙述来传达的,这极大地激发了读者的想象力去填补空白,使得每个人的阅读体验都带上了一层独特的个人色彩。它让你在合上书本后,依然感觉故事在你的脑海中低语,久久不散。
评分坦率地说,这本书的复杂性一度让我感到有些吃力,但正是这种挑战性,成就了它非凡的价值。它不像是一本可以轻松消遣的作品,更像是一张需要耐心解读的地图。作者大胆地打破了线性叙事结构,时不时地抛出一些看似无关紧要的碎片信息,这让初读时的体验略显破碎。然而,随着阅读的深入,你会惊叹于这些碎片是如何巧妙地拼凑成一幅完整而震撼人心的全景图。这种“先混乱后清晰”的阅读体验,极大地增强了最终顿悟时刻的冲击力。我个人尤其欣赏作者在处理多重视角叙事上的老道手法,每一个角色都有着自己不可动摇的逻辑和痛苦,没有绝对的英雄或恶棍,只有在特定环境下做出特定选择的个体。这种模糊地带的描绘,使得故事的厚度远超一般类型小说的范畴,它探讨的是生存的本质,以及记忆和身份的脆弱性。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直让人欲罢不能,从翻开第一页开始,我就像被一股无形的力量拽进了那个错综复杂的世界里。作者对人物心理的刻画入木三分,每一个选择、每一个犹豫都显得那么真实可信。我尤其欣赏作者在构建宏大背景的同时,对那些细微情感波动的捕捉。有时候,一个眼神的交汇,一句不经意的低语,就能揭示出深藏在角色内心深处的巨大秘密。情节的推进如同精密的机械运作,环环相扣,却又在关键时刻爆发出惊人的张力。我常常在阅读时感到心跳加速,生怕错过任何一个可能改变故事走向的细节。那种在平静叙述下暗流涌动的紧张感,是很多作品难以企及的高度。读完最后一章,我甚至需要几分钟时间才能从故事中抽离出来,回味那些震撼心灵的瞬间。这本书不仅仅是一个故事,更像是一次对人性幽暗角落的深度探索,它挑战了你对“正义”和“邪恶”的传统认知,让你不得不重新审视自己的立场。作者高超的语言驾驭能力,使得那些晦涩的哲学思考也变得引人入胜,丝毫没有说教的意味。
评分如果要用一个词来形容这本书带来的感受,我会选择“颠覆”。它彻底打破了我对既有叙事套路的期待。作者在处理时间线和因果关系上玩出了极高明的把戏,让人时常怀疑自己对“现实”的认知。书中对于权力结构和历史修正的探讨,既有深刻的哲学思辨,又不失紧张刺激的悬念设置。最让我印象深刻的是,它敢于直面那些不被主流叙事所接纳的、边缘化的声音。通过这些声音,我们得以窥见一个更广阔、更真实的图景。阅读过程就像是在剥洋葱,每剥开一层,都会发现新的、更核心的真相,而真相往往比最初的猜想更加残酷和复杂。这本书绝不是那种能让你一目了然、轻易概括的作品,它的价值在于其深邃的层次和永恒的探讨价值,它更像是一面镜子,照见的或许是我们自己世界中那些被刻意忽略的结构性缺陷。
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