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"Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - by mobile phone as he somehow manages to drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic at fifty miles an hour. But he's found a new preoccupation, hunting down the killer - last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume - of his business associate and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly slipped out of his grasp." A tour de force blending of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, science fiction, mad doctor movies, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective stories - first published in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look into a future that looks remarkably like the present.
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Le Grossium, Marcel Duhamel, Stanley G. Crawford
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1969
- Reliure
- (souple)
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- Titre
- Le Grossium
- Langue
- Français
- Auteurs
- Marcel Duhamel, Stanley G. Crawford
- Éditeur
- Gallimard
- Publié
- 1969
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 2070482758
- ISBN13
- 9782070482757
- Séries
- Catégories
- Mots clés
- Meurtres, Culture, Amérique, Monnaie, Drogues, Lutte pour le pouvoir, Suicide, Richesse, Ironie, Avarice, Sarkasme, Contrebande
- Évaluation
- 4 sur 5
- Description
- "Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - by mobile phone as he somehow manages to drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic at fifty miles an hour. But he's found a new preoccupation, hunting down the killer - last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume - of his business associate and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly slipped out of his grasp." A tour de force blending of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, science fiction, mad doctor movies, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective stories - first published in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look into a future that looks remarkably like the present.