Death Is a Lonely Business Paperback - 1999

Name: Death Is a Lonely Business
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Author: Bradbury, Ray
ISBN: 9780380789658

by Ray Bradbury

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Toiling away amid looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer creates fantastic stories spun from his fertile imagination--until strange occurrences start happening around him.

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Venice, California, in the old days had much to recommend it to people who liked to be sad.

From the rear cover

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.

Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him.

Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.

Details

Title Death Is a Lonely Business
Author Ray Bradbury
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st Printing
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher William Morrow & Company, Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Publication date 1999-03-01
ISBN 9780380789658 / 0380789655
Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Private investigators - California - Los
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004541507
Dewey Decimal Code FIC