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Wolf Point
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781932961089
ISBN: 1932961089
Label: Unbridled Books
Manufacturer: Unbridled Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 234
Publication Date: October 15, 2005
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Studio: Unbridled Books
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - fine basis for a story but . . .
Too much of the tale is told inside T's head. Too little happens. I found the ending a let down; everything was tied up too neatly. It would have been far more interesting if the drug dealer had found them.
Rating:  - A black heart, but all heart, and very fine
While I've written about this novel for print, praising not just WOLF POINT but a number of Falco's fictions (in hypertext as well as on the page), I care enough about this author and accomplishment to honor them both again in this medium. Falco's latest novel is superb. It erupts with from its opening sentence's "pulp tableau" (a hot young blonde hitchiking, not quite hiding the greasy thug traveling with her) like a perfectly timed and vividly colored fireworks display against a thoroughly noir ... Read More
Rating: - Some very fine writing, and a gripping story
I knew, reading the delightfully specific, musical second sentence of Edward Falco's Wolf Point, that the book would be something special:
"On the side of the road a pulp tableau coalesced: a young woman somewhere between eighteen and twenty-one in red leather pants over black boots and a white silk blouse opened three buttons down, with blond hair flying out from her head wild and wind blown and radiant in the horizontal light of late afternoon, put one foot up on a black guitar case and ... Read More
Rating: - Moved and stunned by an incredibly good writer
I was moved and stunned by an incredibly good writer. Wow, what a discovery! I hope some of the other reviewers will recommend other authors of this calibre (Franzen, Wolfe, Irving, Chabon) that I may not know of. (Email your suggestions: etaub1@aol.com)
Rating:  - "You're a void. A vacuum, an abyss, a black hole"
Tom "T" Walker, the fifty-seven year old, disconsolate businessman, gets more than he bargains for when, on a road trip from Salem, Virginia to the Thousand Islands near the Canadian border, he picks up Jenny and Lester, a couple of suspiciously disaffected hitchhikers.
Outwardly the couple appears to be ok, but as Lester broods in the back seat, and Jenny, sits provocatively dressed in the front, beginning a dance of flirtation and seduction, Tom begins to think that he should have known ... Read More
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