- Fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, crime, Galveston (tex.), fiction
After being diagnosed with lung cancer, Roy Cady kills the men hired by his loan shark boss to kill him, and flees to Galveston, Texas with a prostitute and her young sister, where they face more problems.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Nic Pizzolatto
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Salamandra, Simon & Schuster, Scribner
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781439166666
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