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Pleasantville
Attica Locke
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Belletristik / Krimis, Thriller, Spionage
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016, THE TIMES 10 Best Thrillers of 2010s
It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. Axel Hathorne, former chief of police and the son of Pleasantville's founding father, was all set to become Houston's first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to a late entrant into the race -- Sandy Wolcott, a defence attorney riding high on the success of a high-profile murder trial.
And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel's nephew is charged with her murder.
Sam is determined that Jay Porter defends his grandson. And even though Jay is tired of wading through other people's problems, he suddenly finds himself trying his first murder case, a trial that threatens to blow the entire community wide open, and reveal the lengths that those with power are willing to go to hold onto it.
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As convincing as it is enthralling
Ambitious, assured and compelling
One of the <i>Times</i>' <i> </i>'Ten best thrillers of the past ten years': Attica Locke's compassion for her characters lifts it into another class; you'
An excellent thriller on one level, Locke's novel offers a beautifully detailed character in "Jay Edgar Porter"
Fantastic... couldn'
To say that Locke's debut, <i>Black Water Rising</i> - ambitious, socially committed and beautifully written - created a stir is almost to understate the case, and one wonders if it weighed heavily on her shoulders that she would be obliged to deliver something equally impressive as a follow-up. She did just that with <i>The Cutting Season</i> and now we have <i>Pleasantville ... Pleasantville </i>is every inch as impressive as its predecessors, with a new nuance and complexity burnishing the narrative ... the next time you find yourself in the company of a crime reviewer, don'
In <i>Pleasantville</i>, Attica Locke returns to Jay Porter, the black lawyer hero of her magnificent first novel, <i>Black Water Rising</i>. This one is just as good.
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This is a cinematic, panoramic view of African-American life, but it is also a sharp, tender account of Jay Porter'
Genuinely unnerving ... subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history
In her first three novels, Locke has explored cultural history since the days of slavery. A future book will surely deal with race in the Obama and post-Obama era. That could be her best story yet - which, on the evidence of those she has already written, is saying something.
A common selling point for the sorely missed HBO series "The Wire"
Outstanding...Locke just gets better and better as a writer. This is a grown-up, politically engaged novel as well as a moving portrait of a family upended by grief...a perfect read for election season
Kundenbewertungen
courtroom drama, Edgar Award, orange prize, cwa gold dagger, John Grisham, Little Fires Everywhere, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, When They See Us Central Park Five, NAACP Image Award, houston politics