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City of Brick and Shadow
Tim Wirkus
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Description for City of Brick and Shadow
Hardback. Tim Wirkus' City of Brick and Shadow is a fantastically fun ride, recasting the classic buddy-cop dynamic in a pair of hapless young missionaries; a gripping and unconventional mystery along the lines of The Yiddish Policemen's Union or Motherless Brooklyn. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
"Intimate, mysterious, magical...as accomplished and compelling as anything I've read in recent years." --T.C. Boyle, award-winning author of The Harder They Come "Beautifully conceived and beautifully written...rendered with a strong, confident voice that is so rare in a first novel." --Percival Everett, award-winning author of Assumption Already struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When the neighborhood's corrupt police force shows no interest, Elder Toronto and Elder Schwartz decide to ... Read more
"Intimate, mysterious, magical...as accomplished and compelling as anything I've read in recent years." --T.C. Boyle, award-winning author of The Harder They Come "Beautifully conceived and beautifully written...rendered with a strong, confident voice that is so rare in a first novel." --Percival Everett, award-winning author of Assumption Already struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When the neighborhood's corrupt police force shows no interest, Elder Toronto and Elder Schwartz decide to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Adams Media Corporation United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781440582769
SKU
V9781440582769
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Ref
99-15
About Tim Wirkus
Tim Wirkus is a doctoral candidate in the University of Southern California's creative writing and literature program. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Subtropics, Cream City Review, Weird Fiction Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. His novella Sandy Downs won the 2013 Quarterly West novella contest. This is his first novel.
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