The Destroyers: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062329987 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of the novel Lightning People, and his work has appeared in GQ, the New York Times, the Believer, and Artforum, among other publications. He lives in New York.. Christopher Bollen is an editor at large for Interview magazine
"Good news and bad.news" according to s.s.. This latest adventure from Bollen is a thrilling, character driven mystery set on a small Greek island. The atmosphere is pitch perfect and plays a central role as the complex plot unfolds at a leisurely pace. So while DESTROYERS certainly qualifies as a page turner, it could have benefited from a few less pages... Rascally Rabbit said Over the top. Well written but perhaps too well written. Overly long, too clever but still a good read. Will try my chances on another book by this author. "I gave up half-way" according to harlingford. It is rare that I do not finish a book, but I gave up half-way through this one. As another reviewer noted, the story starts well but then just meanders in the middle, including endless scenes of drunken dinner conversations that do not seem much related to the plot. It's as if the author tried to graft together a comedy of manners of the behavior of eurotrash on Greek islands with
Recommended as Summer Reading by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, New York Post, St. His childhood friend Charlie—rich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the island—could be his last hope.At first Patmos appears to be a dream—long sun-soaked days on Charlie’s yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian’s past—and Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately needs. We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. Bollen is stylish enough to know what sells. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, Boston Herald, New York Social Diary, Library Journal, Bookstr, Kirkus “Beautiful people visiting glamorous places, being wicked enough to bring Patricia Highsmith to mind. When Charlie suddenly vanishes, Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. As he grapples with the turmoil left in his friend’s wake, he is reminded of an imaginary game called Destroyers they played as children—a game, h
Ripley — that shimmering 1999 movie, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, of rich Americans getting into picturesque trouble in the sunny Mediterranean — out of your head while reading this dark-side-of-summer novel. Louche, suspenseful, and polysexual.” (429)“The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene.” (Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious Days)“The Destroyers is one superb novel, a tightly woven and fast-moving narrative set in beautifully crafted prose. Equal parts Graham G