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Bezig met laden... Death Before Bedtime (1953)door Edgar Box
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The second of three mysteries that Gore Vidal wrote under the nom de plume of "Edgar Box" in the early 1950s, after The New York Times's savage review of his novel of curdled homosexuality The City and the Pillar (1948) -- and their subsequent banning of his works from their book review pages -- made a career as a novelist in the U.S. impossible and forced him to work for the movie and television studios for a decade, Death Before Bedtime is a locked room mystery with traces of the penchant for political and social satire that Vidal would later develop to better effect in his Narratives of Empire series (which includes Burr, Lincoln, Empire, and The Golden Age). The protagonist is a fair-haired PR man named Peter Cutler Sargeant II, who is something of a Mary Sue figure (Sargeant gives his residence as 120 Christopher Street in NYC, which is -- or was -- a gay neighborhood); Sargeant is hired by a ruthless senator with fascist ties and presidential ambitions who is blown up in his study the very same night that Sargeant and a small cast of suspects arrive at the senator's house to plan his run for the White House. Despite a promising start, what follows can only be described as "Vidal lite," as the worlds of far right political action groups, the political and social whirl of the Beltway, and the media conjugate in various unseemly pairings, with Sargeant and the Washington, D.C. police serving as more or less interested interlocutors who try to get to the bottom of things, if doing so doesn't take up too much effort, personal prestige, or time. Probably of interest only to fans of Vidal's acidulous prose who are curious to see his development as a writer. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Dashing P.R. man Peter Sargeant is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before he's to announce, though, the senator is murdered in his bed. No longer needed as a political publicist, Sargeant finds himself helping the police find the killer. He deftly navigates an eccentric cast of characters, all of whom are suspects: the rebellious daughter; the sycophantic aide; the grieving widow; and the power-hungry governor with his eye on the senator's job. Somehow, between charming the senator's daughter and glad-handling Washington's elite, Sargeant still manages to methodically put the pieces into place and sees that politics truly is a cutthroat business"--P. [4] of cover. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Good twisty fun. Fascinating as much for the picture of 1950s Washington as anything else. ( )