Dreaming Of Babylon
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.
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: stained book block. price clipped dj.
San Francisco, 1942: C. Card is the worst private detective in the city — broke, dreamy, and constitutionally incapable of keeping his mind on the job, forever drifting into vivid fantasies of ancient Babylon where he is a heroic warrior rather than a man who can't afford bullets for his gun. When a bizarre case lands in his lap involving a stolen corpse from the city morgue, rival gangsters, and a femme fatale with a very unusual request, Card must somehow navigate a treacherous criminal underworld while his imagination wages a relentless war against his concentration. Richard Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon is a wickedly comic deconstruction of the hard-boiled detective novel, wielding the conventions of Chandler and Hammett with gleeful, surrealist irreverence. Brautigan's prose is spare, deadpan, and shot through with a melancholic absurdism that transforms the noir genre into something entirely his own — a meditation on escapism, failure, and the seductive power of fantasy. For readers who thought they knew what a detective story could be, Card's hapless odyssey through fog-drenched San Francisco will leave them questioning everything — and laughing all the way.
Author: Richard Brautigan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Jonathan Cape, London
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: stained book block. price clipped dj.
San Francisco, 1942: C. Card is the worst private detective in the city — broke, dreamy, and constitutionally incapable of keeping his mind on the job, forever drifting into vivid fantasies of ancient Babylon where he is a heroic warrior rather than a man who can't afford bullets for his gun. When a bizarre case lands in his lap involving a stolen corpse from the city morgue, rival gangsters, and a femme fatale with a very unusual request, Card must somehow navigate a treacherous criminal underworld while his imagination wages a relentless war against his concentration. Richard Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon is a wickedly comic deconstruction of the hard-boiled detective novel, wielding the conventions of Chandler and Hammett with gleeful, surrealist irreverence. Brautigan's prose is spare, deadpan, and shot through with a melancholic absurdism that transforms the noir genre into something entirely his own — a meditation on escapism, failure, and the seductive power of fantasy. For readers who thought they knew what a detective story could be, Card's hapless odyssey through fog-drenched San Francisco will leave them questioning everything — and laughing all the way.