The Big Clock
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — significant chipping and tears to the dust jacket corners and spine ends, some loss to the top of the spine. Cover boards appear intact beneath the jacket. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Appears intact.
A masterwork of American noir, The Big Clock is a razor-sharp crime thriller set inside the belly of a vast media empire. The novel follows George Stroud, a senior editor at a powerful magazine conglomerate who, in a devastating twist of fate, is assigned to hunt down the sole witness to a murder — a witness who turns out to be himself. Fearing constructs a suffocating, paranoid atmosphere with multiple unreliable narrators, using the relentless machinery of corporate bureaucracy as a metaphor for inescapable fate. Written with sardonic wit and breakneck tension, the narrative chronicles Stroud's desperate attempt to sabotage his own investigation while staying one step ahead of his tyrannical boss, who is both his employer and the killer. First published in 1946, this landmark of hardboiled fiction remains one of the most inventive and psychologically taut crime novels ever written.
Author: Kenneth Fearing
Format: Hardback
Published: 1947, The Bodley Head
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — significant chipping and tears to the dust jacket corners and spine ends, some loss to the top of the spine. Cover boards appear intact beneath the jacket. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Appears intact.
A masterwork of American noir, The Big Clock is a razor-sharp crime thriller set inside the belly of a vast media empire. The novel follows George Stroud, a senior editor at a powerful magazine conglomerate who, in a devastating twist of fate, is assigned to hunt down the sole witness to a murder — a witness who turns out to be himself. Fearing constructs a suffocating, paranoid atmosphere with multiple unreliable narrators, using the relentless machinery of corporate bureaucracy as a metaphor for inescapable fate. Written with sardonic wit and breakneck tension, the narrative chronicles Stroud's desperate attempt to sabotage his own investigation while staying one step ahead of his tyrannical boss, who is both his employer and the killer. First published in 1946, this landmark of hardboiled fiction remains one of the most inventive and psychologically taut crime novels ever written.