{"product_id":"blood-acre-by-peter-landesman","title":"Blood Acre by Peter Landesman - USED","description":"Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathan Stein--once an attractive, cultured lawyer--has slipped into the dark world of his powerful father's corrupt practice. After one too many shady deals, he finds himself alone, sick in body and spirit. His career and life are careening out of control, and he's about to become the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman. As we follow him over a long day and night, Nathan encounters the friends, lovers, and family members he has betrayed. Lurching toward redemption, he must answer for his actions. Is he a murderer or the victim of an elaborate frame-up? Or do his sins go even deeper? A tale of chilling suspense that belies the elegance of its prose,\u003cbr\u003eBlood Acre is a compelling story of one man's harrowing search through the dark streets of the soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] brooding, beautifully written thriller\" from the award-winning author of\u003cbr\u003eThe Raven (\u003cbr\u003eEntertainment Weekly)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A genuine tour de force, an apocalyptic murder mystery . . . that demands to be read in a single setting.\"--\u003cbr\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exquisitely written.\"--\u003cbr\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome dazzling verbal and atmospheric effects distinguish, but dont entirely redeem, this highly pitched portrayal of a corrupt attorney's descent into a maelstrom of his own making: the second novel from the author of The Raven (1995), which won a Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. The story begins on a high point: the discovery of the body of Isabel Santos, secretary and sometime lover to Nathan Stein, a lawyer whose derelict and incorrigibly criminal clients pay him with cocaine, protection, a nd entree to the more lucrative levels of New York City's thriving drug trade. Evidence immediately points to Nathan as Isabel's killer, but his intricate connections with powerful people (notably Stein pere, also a notoriously connected attorney) and the mixed feelings that torment NYPD detective Errol Santos, Nathan's old law school classmate (and Isabel's brother), leave Nathan free to wander the city's mean midnight streets in a fog of guilty recollection. Landesman glides forward and backward in time , exploring the disturbed consciousness of Nathan, Errol, and also Claire Proffitt (!), an embittered paralegal who was once Stein's mistress and fiance (and the mother of his malformed baby) and is now Santos's lover. Other coincidences and dark secrets abound in a feverish melodrama that features arresting imagery (storm clouds are ``dark horses rearing up''; in a hospital morgue, ``fermenting corpses stretched out like loaves in their individual ovens'') and emotionally overloaded scenes (Nathan's bela ted visit to the dying mother of his other illegitimate child; a chilling Rikers Island interview with a murderous drug-dealer\/godmother; a climactic fire at the Steins' East Hampton mansion). It all frets and struts impressively, and Landesman comes thro ugh with a stunning explanation of his storys central mystery, capping it with a terrifically bleak, sardonic denouement. Still, the novel feels willfully obscure, as well as over- indebted to obvious models (Chinatown, William Styron's Lie Down in Darkne ss). Bold, often enthralling stuffbut one guesses the gifted Landesman can do better. --\u003cbr\u003eCopyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLandesman's second novel (after The Raven), about 48 hours in the life of a dissolute New York attorney, offers a literate and menacing new perspective on the noirish territory already staked out by such writers as George V. Higgins. Nathan Stein, the son and partner of a powerful, corrupt defense lawyer, staggers through a singularly bad day, cutting his losses when \"there is nothing left to cut.\" Not only is he physically and spiritually ill, but one of his many mistresses is dying, he is the prime suspect in his secretary's murder and a few of his shady deals and broken promises are coming back to haunt him. As his world implodes, Nathan's overactive beeper b","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311118614591,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/21671023482188.jpg?v=1779929988","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/blood-acre-by-peter-landesman","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}