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Nada / by Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Luc Sante.

Nada / by Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Luc Sante.
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ISBN 9781681373171 (paperback)
Name Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995 author.
Uniform title Nada. English
Title Nada / by Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Luc Sante.
Published New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
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Description xiii, 179 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary "Nada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette's dark thrillers, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the ultra-left in France (and elsewhere) in the wake of the disillusions of 1968. The novel chronicles the kidnapping and eventual killing of an American ambassador by an anarcho-terrorist group who have espoused armed struggle. A rough equivalent to this story might be the saga of the ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army in California, whose fiery elimination is reminiscent of the police massacre of Manchette's fictional direct-action group in Nada. The novel is in no sense a political pamphlet, however, and readers who have come to appreciate the very special qualities of Manchette's writing, and the cool noir style that he inherits in part from Dashiell Hammett and calls 'behaviorist,' will not be disappointed in the tour de force that is Nada"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects Kidnapping -- Fiction
Murder -- Fiction
Domestic terrorism -- France -- Fiction
Genre Thrillers (Fiction)
Other Names Nicholson-Smith, Donald translator.
Sante, Luc writer of introduction.
Series New York Review Books classics
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