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Let's All Kill Constance : A Novel by Ray Bradbury (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060515848
ISBN-139780060515843
eBay Product ID (ePID)2272177
Product Key Features
Book TitleLet's All Kill Constance : a Novel
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicMystery & Detective / Historical, General, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Science Fiction / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
GenreFiction
AuthorRay Bradbury
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.3 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-026416
Reviews"Ray Bradbury's writing remains as rich and ripe as ever." -- Washington Post Times-Herald "Bradbury remains a conjurer." -- Time magazine "Ray Bradbury remains a master storyteller, and his writing still cracks my hat." -- Chicago Tribune "An irresistible tale which will be in demand, since it's only Bradbury's second novel since 1963. " -- Library Journal "Madness, blackmail, murder and mayhem spell tricks and treats as Bradbury toes the fine line between reality and illusion." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisOn a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door -- and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge: twin lists of the Tinseltown dead and soon-to-be dead . . . with Constance's name included among them. And, just as suddenly, she vanishes into the stormy night, leaving the narrator with her macabre "gifts" and an unshakable determination to get to the root of the actress's grand terror. So begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick, Crumley, to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood. But a world that once sparkled with larger- than-life luminaries -- Dietrich, Valentino, Harlow -- is now a graveyard of ghosts and secrets. Each twisted road our heroes travel leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams -- a remote cabin where history is preserved in mountains of yellowed newsprint; a cathedral where sinners hold sway; a forgotten projection booth where the past lives eternally on in an endless loop of cinematic youth and beauty. And always the road turns back to lost filmdom's temple, a fading movie palace called Grauman's Chinese, and to the murky hidden catacombs beneath. Prepare yourself for a mystery as enthralling as the most well-crafted whodunit; a satire as keen as the edge of a straight razor, a phantasmagoric celebration of a lost world built on equal parts dream and nightmare -- the latest fantastic flight of glorious imagination by Ray Bradbury, the one and only.
LC Classification NumberPS3503.R167L47 2003
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