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THE CRACKED EARTH
Pegasus Books, 2007 ISBN 1-933648-52-X
THE CRACKED EARTH
Searching for the daughter of a fading Hollywood star, Jack Liffey finds himself falling in love with her outsize screen image and questioning the impact of "celebrity" on his own consciousness. A devastating earthquake brings his search to its climax.
Reviews and Comment
Dick Adler, Chicago
Tribune
"The best L.A. earthquake scenes ever, the best private detective
making love to an old movie star moments ever, the most bearable private
detective driving a beat-up car scenes ever (a 1979 AMC Concord), the hands-down
winner in the long-running "Where is the Next Raymond Chandler Coming From?"
sweepstakes -- all of these honors belong to The Cracked Earth by John
Shannon, remarkably an original paperback just published by Berkley Prime Crime
($5.99). Where has Shannon been all our lives? The Concrete River, his
first book about private eye Jack Liffey (Get it? Shannon and Liffey? Both
rivers in Ireland?) was published by John Brown Books in Culver City, CA. Buy
enough copies of his latest and maybe Berkley will republish
it."
James Crumley, bestselling author of
Bordersnakes
"The landscape of Los Angeles, both actually and
metaphorically, has been deconstructed by writers from West to Chandler to
Didion, but never quite as artfully as John Shannon does it in The Cracked
Earth. A fine, interesting read."
Jim Sallis, author of the Lew
Griffin Novels
"Last night I finished The Cracked Earth, which I
think truly fine (over and again I found myself rereading sentences, especially
the descriptions -- what a sense of place!) I wanted very much to thank you for
the inscribed copy of this marvelous novel. It is treasured."
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THE CRACKED EARTH
Berkley Prime Crime, 1999 ISBN 0-425-16732-1
Out of print.
Faille Fatale
(French edition of The Cracked Earth)L'Atalante, 2002 ISBN 2-84172-205-8
--J.F. Le Ruyet, French translator of the Liffey series
To buy: link to http://www.fnac.com/ or http://www.amazon.fr/
Copyright © John Shannon 2005. All rights reserved.