Dark Companion: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1590202023
- ISBN-13
- 9781590202029
- Series
- Dark Companion
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-05
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Author
- Jim Nisbet
Description
Overlook continues its reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbet¹s oeuvre with Dark Companion. Nisbet, the acclaimed noir writer from San Francisco captures the absurdities of present-day America with a rare pungency in this noir gem. Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian-American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending his garden and studying his beloved astronomy. When Rolf ¹s relationship with his seedy, drug-dealing neighbor, Toby Pride, and Pride¹s stoner girlfriend takes a weird turn, Rolf¹s placid world is shattered and he becomes a fugitive from justice. Crime, cosmology, politics, philosophy, physics and more enter into this cautionary tale, which climaxes with the suddenness of a cobra strike and then delivers a denouement that¹s both stunning and absolutely perfect.
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