Lawrence Block - Libros y biografía

"Byrne e Susan Hollander fanno una bella vita. Lui è un avvocato, lei una scrittrice. La loro casa di pietra a Manhattan, che vale tre milioni di dollari, è a due passi dal Lincoln Center. E lì, in quella...

Bernie Rhodenbarr hat sich tatsächlich auf den Pfad der Tugend begeben. Es ist bereits ein Jahr her, seit er sich zum letzten Mal unerlaubt Zutritt zu einem fremden Heim verschafft hat. Doch jetzt zwingt...

Seit seinem Debüt von 1977 hat sich Bernie Rhodenbarr die Zuneigung eines wachsenden internationalen Publikums erworben. Der unbekümmerte Langfinger, der sich mit seiner detektivischen Begabung aus den...

Lawrence Block on AFTERTHOUGHTS 2.0:AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began self-publishing titles from my voluminous backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords and essays and articles...

Sometime in 1953, I knew with unusual certainty what I intended to do with my life. I would become a writer.I was then 15 years old, and the next several years were to prove eventful. I went to college,...

Sheesh. What a lousy title. Flesh Mob was published by Midnight Reader, a fellow imprint of Nightstand Books, in 1962. I can tell at a glance that it's my work, although I don't specifically recall writing...

Jahrelang ist Keller durchs ganze Land gereist und hat Leute umgebracht.Aber jetzt reicht es ihm. Nur noch ein Auftrag – im Voraus bezahlt -, und er wird in Rente gehen. Während er in Des Moines darauf...

MATT SCUDDER RITORNAA più di quarant'anni dal suo debutto e quasi dieci anni dopo la sua ultima apparizione, uno dei più noti personaggi di tutta la letteratura poliziesca è di nuovo al lavoro su un altro...

Keller is a hit man who finds his life turned upside down when a job means more than the one allotted death...Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates...

A brilliant, fast-paced thriller from 'a flat out entertainer' Daily TelegraphAlso a major film starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Ruth Wilson - now available on NetflixKenan Khoury's wife never returned...

A pulse-pounding Matt Scudder story.The streets of New York are never safe, but the release of James Leo Motley, a psychopath who went down swearing revenge on PI Matt Scudder, means death is out there....

Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for...

From the author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - set to be a major Hollywood film - comes the third novel in the Matt Scudder series.When hard-drinking ex-cop Matt Scudder is roped into an NYPD internal...

Nel sedicesimo romanzo che ha per protagonista Matthew Scudder, Un Campo di Fiori Morti, Lawrence Block, autore best seller del New York Times, porta questa serie, già più volte premiata, a un nuovo livello...

Nel Vortice della Morte (In the Midst of Death) è il terzo romanzo in cui figura Matthew Scudder, il personaggio più coinvolgente di Lawrence Block. Tormentato dai rimorsi, ha lasciato la moglie e i figli...

The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson.A pretty young girl is...

69 Barrow Street is Lawrence Block's fourth book, first published in 1959. A multiple-viewpoint novel, it's set in a brownstone in GreenwichVillage. Considered erotic back I the day, it's tame by 21st...

There's a song they used to sing at Antioch College, and it went something like this:"She was just a little freshman Victim of Admission's whim Then she met an upperclassman—we won't name him— And she...

I'd no sooner finished CARLA, my first book for Midwood Tower, than Harry Shorten asked for another. I'd just returned to Antioch College, where after two years as an undistinguished student I'd dropped...

When I decided to reissue my early books in the Collection of Classic Erotica, I did so without realizing what I was getting myself into. I would have to read them again.Or, as in the case of BORN TO...

When Joyce Kendall arrives in New York, fresh out of Clifton College in Iowa, she has a job and an apartment waiting for her. The job’s as a first reader for Armageddon Publications. The apartment’s at...

A Woman Must Love is #12 in the Collection of Classic Erotica, and it's never been reissued since Midwood brought it out in 1960. Consequently I've just read it for the first time since I wrote it some...

Here's what someone wrote as the book description for an earlier edition of ENOUGH OF SORROW:"From master storyteller Lawrence Block comes one girl's journey toward self-discovery and sexual freedom....Karen...

Shadows, which was not only the debut of Jill Emerson but my own very first novel, is the story of a young woman, Jan Marlowe, who comes to New York fresh out of college, takes an apartment in the Bohemian...

17-year-old Johnny Wells was a very handsome young man, and you’d have called him a babe magnet, but I’m afraid they didn’t have that phrase back in 1961. He decided to capitalize on his looks and the...

Alla conclusione de Il Sicario in Fuga, Keller viveva in una grande e vecchia casa nel quartiere del Lower Garden in una New Orleans che si stava riprendendo dall'uragano Katrina. Aveva un nuovo nome...

Danny Duncan drives his father’s Oldsmobile. It's a nice respectable family sedan, and April North is every bit as respectable as the car. Until he manages to get her into the back seat. Now she's no...

Presenting EVAN TANNER—the first series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain’s sleep center,...

Presenting EVAN TANNER—the first series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain’s sleep center,...

Presenting EVAN TANNER—the first series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain’s sleep center,...