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Custom House
March 2018
On Sale: February 27, 2018
352 pages
ISBN: 0062797190
EAN: 9780062797193
Kindle: B072LCW78B
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A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicagoβa city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known betterβby the Oscar- nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prizeβwinning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodgeβveteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fryβprobably shouldnβt have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy Cityβs underground on its way to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades, but the book he has been building to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era, suffused with trademark "Mamet Speak," richness of voice, pace, and brio, and exploringβas no other writer canβquestions of honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan.
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