The Destroyers: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062329987 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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A read-all-night of a book.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of FranceWhen Charlie and I were young, we played a game called Destroyers. We were honing strategies for survival.Arriving on the Greek island of Patmos broke and humiliated, Ian Bledsoe is fleeing the emotional and financial fallout from his father’s death. It just isn’t summer without this kind of globe-trotting glamour to read about, especially when most of it is set in the Aegean. We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. When Charlie suddenly vanishes, Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. Escapism, as calculating as it gets.” —Janet Maslin, New York Times"Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, and F. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, Boston Herald, New York Social Diary, Library Journal,
Bollen writes so extraordinarily well, conjures up such striking imagery, smart dialogue and even a few jolting surprises. 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. The writing is sharp, languid, and lovely, and the first-person point of view is a narrowly focused beam that eventually grows to encompass the entirety of the island.” (Library Journal)&ldquo
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. Christopher Bollen is an editor at large for Interview magazine. He lives in New York.
Good news and bad.news 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... Over the top Rascally Rabbit 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 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 a mystery/suspense story. The plot seemed flimsy. After the second quarter of the book didn't go much of anywhere, I