The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Sweet Sunday

Sweet Sunday

by JohnLawton (Author)

  • Used

    Hardcover 2002

    $3.28
Synopsis

It is the summer of 1969 - the hottest, sweatiest summer in history, the American summer in the American year in the American century. The USA is about to land a man on the moon and the Vietnam War is ripping the country to pieces, setting sons against fathers, fathers against sons. The Woodstock festival is in full swing and Norman Mailer is standing as candidate for Mayor of New York. Against this backdrop, second-rate detective Turner Raines finds himself investigating a series of murders that begin with the death of his best friend, a reporter on the Village Voice.

$3.28

Save:$18.23 (85%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 08 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0297646818
ISBN 13: 9780297646815
Book Overview: Ecstatic reviews. On A LITTLE WHITE DEATH A.N. Wilson wrote in the Daily Telegraph: 'Unputdownable narrative of spying, sexual intrigue, political scandal and murder...One thing is for sure. You will keep turning the pages'. And from the Sunday Telegraph on RIPTIDE: 'One of the most entertaining thrillers I have read in years'. John Lawton's earlier novels, featuring police detective Frederick Troy - BLACK OUT, OLD FLAMES, A LITTLE WHITE DEATH and RIPTIDE have been bought for filming by Columbia Pictures.

Media Reviews
We've given SWEET SUNDAY a press date of 15th August..Johntook part in a number of crime panels in London libraries throughout August and September including Hammersmith (5th August), British Museum (15th August), Stratford (2nd September), Putney (4th September) and Blackheath (5th September). He also didan event at Hamstead Library, Birmingham (19 August). Interviews confirmed so far include a 40 minute 'coffee break feature interview' on the John Holmesprogramme (BBC Radio Derby). Reviews confirmed so far include the Good Book Guide and Crime Time magazine (who will be doing an article about all of John's books). There has been a mention in the Financial Times and Sweet Sunday was also chosen by Francine Stock in A Little Night Reading (Sunday Times) 'has more than enough verve and wit to ensure happy page-turning wakefulness' 'Crimes are committed, secrets revealed in Lawton's sprawling heartbreaker of anovel...Lawton invests the memory of such high, lost hopes with passion, imaagination and hard-nosed nostalgia. It is a potent combination.'Literary Review 'One of the joys of reviewing crime fiction is that now and then one comesacross a new author whose writing sets pulse racing and the jaded responses tingling. I haven't met Lawton before, even though hhis present novel is his sixth, but, having read it, I'm now off in search of the other five....I entreat you, dear reader, to search out John Lawton and cherish him to your bosom, for he is truly an original.'Michael Painter, Irish Times 'Brits writing books set in America and peopled with American characters always have their work cut out to sound authentic. Lawton does a terrific job... Very readable.'Peter Guttridge, Observer '...an absorbing read.'Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph 'This is a marvellpis read - funny, literate, politically sophisticated andutterly compelling. It epitomises the best kind of American thriller writing, with a finger on the pulse of its time.'New Books magazine 'A spirited, dark novel that captures the complexities of America in the Sixties and uses a political background to flavour an intense story of love, murder, truth and loyalty,'www.punch.co.uk 'Beautifully written in an adventurous, episodic, elegiac style, entirely suitable to its subject matter, this is a marvellously entertaining read and a delightful piece of history viewed from the perspective
Author Bio
John Lawton is a degenerating misanthrope who lives in a remote hilltop village in Derbyshire. He is not entirely sure why. He likes T.C. Boyle, Chuck Palahniuk and Cormac McCarthy - and considers the seminal text of our time to be Myron by Gore Vidal. He is keen on the cultivation of the onion and obscure varieties of potato. He hates tories, teachers and travel (in that order) - but loves to visit Arizona, Florence ... New York ...