Wishlist Wednesday #25
10:01 PMWishlist Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Pen to Paperwhere we tell you about a book that is currently on our wishlist that we are excited for!
This week on Phil's Wishlist:
Sam Kornberg is a failed novelist living in L.A. with a collapsing marriage. Desperate for work, he becomes the assistant to a portly, housebound detective named Solar Lonsky. His assignment to track a mysterious woman is the trigger for a tense, smart, and often screamingly funny story involving sexy doppelgangers, insane asylums, south-of-the-border shootouts, mistaken identities, video-store-geekery, and the death of the novel. It’s as if Tarantino had remade Vertigo after bingeing on Nero Wolfe novels. Mystery Girl is both an entertaining thriller and a cunning inquiry into art, style, and deception, by a writer who Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, has hailed as “one of the smartest, most stylish writers I’ve ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit with moments of real transcendent beauty.”
I saw this book in an ad on Goodreads, and initially the cover drew me in. Then I read the synopsis and was like...shit this looks awesome. It seems like a cool kind of mystery, and the fact that they describe it as Tarantino-esque is awesome, can't wait to get my hands on it!
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This sounds like an interesting book. I have not heard of it before. I hope you get it soon!
ReplyDeleteBrittany @ Spare Time Book blog
My WW: http://sparetimebookblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/wishlist-wednesday-59.html