That hurdle over, the book got better and better One need not have ever worked for a newspaper to appreciate John Darnton's 2008 mystery "Black & White and Dead All Over," but it helps.
Listen to unlimited audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. That hurdle over, the book got better and better. I laughed out loud quite a few times (as when the Globe boss, a man with a rare talent for mauling quotes, came out with "The only thing we have to worry about is worry itself", p198); meanwhile, I was turning the pages avidly to find out what was going to happen next. One need not have ever worked for a newspaper to appreciate John Darnton's 2008 mystery "Black & White and Dead All Over," but it helps.
Phil Gigante is a born raconteur. Gigante finds credible female voices for the detective and various reporters and uses variations on a New York accent to differentiate and give personalities to Darnton's other well-drawn characters
Phil Gigante is a born raconteur. Gigante finds credible female voices for the detective and various reporters and uses variations on a New York accent to differentiate and give personalities to Darnton's other well-drawn characters. More than a mystery, this novel is a spot-on depiction of a chaotic big-time newsroom and the many ironies in the newspaper business. Gigante modulates his voice with expert skill and creates vivid images of the people and events.
and fails on all of them. As a novel, it features hackneyed characters with the depth and color of cardboard.
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Опубликовано: 20 нояб. 2017 г. Today's Guest: John Darnton, ex-New York Times reporter, novelist, "Black and White and Dead All Over". Бойня СуперКрепостей B-29: могила ВВС США!
Written by John Darnton, Audiobook narrated by Phil Gigante. And the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over
Written by John Darnton, Audiobook narrated by Phil Gigante. And the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over. With the firsthand knowledge he acquired over 40 years in journalism, John Darnton conjures up the cynicism and romanticism of the profession and gives us a cunning, pitch-perfect portrait of the declining - if not yet murderous - newspaper industry within a mystery that entertains from first to last.
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John Darnton’s previous novels were notable for their sinister themes and exotic settings, for overcooked plots . The ending is a bit of a letdown. Black and White and Dead All Over is fun to read, and surprisingly gripping
John Darnton’s previous novels were notable for their sinister themes and exotic settings, for overcooked plots that seemed custom-made for Hollywood. Black and White and Dead All Over is fun to read, and surprisingly gripping. As Theodore Ratnoff might have said if the manuscript had crossed his desk: Nice. Who? Black and white and dead all over. 351 pp. Alfred A. Knopf.
Автор: Darnton, John Название: Black and White and Dead All Over Издательство: Random House (USA) .
Описание: Best-selling author John Darnton delivers his most personal book to date: an intensely moving memoir spanning the Jazz Age through the post-war years, of the love and devotion in a family where even the dog is unfaithful.
But the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over-From publisher description. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books.
Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the New York Globe, the city’s long-standing newspaper of note, whose back is to the wall. Readership, advertising, and circulation are plummeting—along with the paper’s vaunted standards—and the cost cutters have their knives out. But trouble of a wholly different kind begins one rainy September morning when a powerful editor is found murdered in the newsroom, with the spike that he’d wielded to kill stories hammered into his chest. The problem for Priscilla Bollingsworth, the young, ambitious female NYPD detective assigned to the case—besides the fact that the mayor is breathing down her neck—is that there are too many suspects to choose from.
She teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, and together they navigate the ink-infested waters whose denizens include the paper’s resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. But the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over.
Armed with the firsthand knowledge he has acquired through forty years in journalism, John Darnton conjures up the cynicism and romanticism of the profession and gives us a cunning, pitch-perfect portrait of the declining—if not yet murderous—newspaper industry. Black and White and Dead All Over is a satirical mystery that entertains from first to last.