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Shella by Andrew Vachss (1993, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679424164

ISBN-139780679424161

eBay Product ID (ePID)1384042

Product Key Features

Book TitleShella

Number of Pages225 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / General

Publication Year1993

IllustratorYes

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorAndrew Vachss

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight14.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN92-075207

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"A noir archetype as bare as unfinished furniture. The plot...has been sanded down into a taut monofilament... The prose in Shella is boiled to the bone." --Village Voice "Vachss tells his story in an understated shorthand.... He seems bottomlessly knowledgeable...about the depth and variety of human twistedness." --The New York Times From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisFrom the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators. He is called "Ghost" because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he slays with such reflexive ease that he might be one of the dead. Once he traveled with a woman who was called "Shella" -- because those who had treated her as a horrendously ill-used child had tried to make her come out of her shell. Now Shella has vanished in a wilderness of strip clubs and peep shows, and Ghost is looking for her, guided by a killer's instinct and the recognition that can only exist between two people who have been damaged past the point of no return. The result is Andrew Vachss's most compelling work to date, the thriller reimagined as a bleak romance of the damned. From the Trade Paperback edition.

LC Classification NumberPS3572.A33S48 1993