Gates of Eden Contributor(s): Coen, Ethan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061684880 ISBN-13: 9780061684883 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: In this national bestseller now in paperback, a contract kill is botched when the hit man phones his boss for further instructions on a wire-tapped phone; a private investigator tangles with a thug and has an ear bitten off; and middle-aged man beheads his wife, then calmly offers an explanation of how she drove him to do it. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: P.S. |
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.26" W x 8.02" (0.42 lbs) 272 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories--from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife, alarming in that it almost makes sense. |
Contributor Bio(s): Coen, Ethan: - Ethan Coen and his brother, Joel Coen, are multiple Oscar-winning American filmmakers who have written and directed a number of acclaimed motion pictures, including Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Fargo, and the 2007 Best Picture Academy Award winner, No Country for Old Men. |