Solea (Marseilles Trilogy)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01GPBP8SQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 243 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lonya said Solea: Fabio Montale's solemn last dance. "Solea" is a fitting title for the third and final volume of Jean-Claude Izzo's "Marseilles Trilogy". Solea is a form of Flamenco music that tends to center around a melancholy self-examination of life, love and death. Readers who have already worked their way through Volumes I (Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy)) a. "An Engaging Read" according to Peter Weissman. "Once you get to a certain age, you don't make friends anymore. But you still have buddies . "It's the narrator's voice that made this book an engaging read. The genre as excuse, you might say, for sociological, existential, and social commentary. But since Solea is in fact a mystery, the plot, and the stoking who. Capital of the Third World Stephen Adelman Either in this book or one of the other two in the trilogy, Izzo calls his beloved Marseilles the capital of the third world. It is a convincing statement. In fact, as in the other two books of the trilogy, the city itself seemed as important as the characters and plot details; and what the author, as narrator, ha
The Final Book in the Marseilles TrilogyEx-cop, loner, Fabio Montale returns in this stunning conclusion to Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseilles trilogy. In desperation, Bellini seeks help from her former lover, Montale. It concludes an unforgettable trilogy that epitomizes the aspirations and ideals of the Mediterranean noir movement.From the Trade Paperback edition.. A modern city and an ancient Mediterranean port, a melting pot of ethnicities and a cauldron boiling with human passions, a place of natural splendor and of sudden violence.Solea is Izzo's heartfelt cry against the criminal forces corrupting his beloved city. Like a woman he can't leave, like strong liquor he can't refuse, Marseilles lures Montale back into its violent embrace. This is a Marseilles that will break your heart. Before he has time to shake off his most recent hangover, Montale is receiving sinister phone calls from men with Italian accents who want him to find Bellini for them. It is his farewell to Marseilles and to its ideal protagonist, F
Babette's sophisticated analysis of organized crime's effect on the working classes, plus Izzo's unsparing treatment of his cynical hero, elevate this far above most Mafia-themed fiction. . (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Despite his pessimism, Montale allows himself to hope again after he falls hard for a woman named Sonia he meets in a bar; noir fans will be less than surprised that the flicker of romantic promise is quickly extinguished—in this case by a Mafia hit man targeting Montale and people he cares for to get him to divulge the location of his journalist friend, Babette, who's written an exposé detailing mob links with politicians and the police. All rights reserved. From Publishers Wee