BLACKBOX: A Chilling and Intelligent Novel of Interwoven Lives, Strangers, and the Tragic Stowaway

Walker, Nick

ISBN 10: 0060532246 / ISBN 13: 9780060532246

Verlag: Harper Paperbacks, 2003

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00090078520

Inhaltsangabe:

Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's much worse.

In America and Britain and the sky in between, an apparently disparate group of people is connected, whether intimately or by chance, to the tragic death of a stowaway on board flight AF266.

As the action veers across countries and time zones, the stowaway's real identity is revealed through stolen black box recordings, answering machine messages, sitcom outtakes, and court transcripts. Told in a shifting, circular narrative, the interwoven lives make up a jolting and layered puzzle that builds to a heart-stopping, chilling climax.

An intelligent and invigorating novel with a bizarre menu of dysfunctional characters, Blackbox is the story of an attempt to erase a life on tape.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Nick Walker is a writer and performer with Talking Birds,a UK mixed-media production company. He lives under aflight path in Coventry, England.

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Titel: BLACKBOX: A Chilling and Intelligent Novel ...
Verlag: Harper Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good