Nightscape
By (Author) David Morrell
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
15th June 2004
Export ed.
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
813.54
256
Width 150mm, Height 20mm, Spine 232mm
353g
By and large the kind of tales an author writes are metaphors for the scars in the nooks and crannies of his/her psyche. In David Morrell s youth, thrillers and horror stories provided an escape from his nightmarish reality. Is it any wonder that, as an adult obsessed with being a writer, he has compulsively turned to the types of stories that provided escape when he was a child In his own words, perhaps he is eager to provide an escape for others. Or perhaps he is still trying to escape from his past.
In each of the stories in this collection there is a theme: obsession and determination. A character gets an idea in his head, a hook on his emotions, a need that has to be fulfilled, and he does everything possible to carry through, no matter how difficult. Written with the haunting emotional intensity and lightning pace that has made David Morrell the master of high-action suspense writing, this collection of stories will leave you dazzled.David Morrell is one of America's most popular and acclaimed storytellers, with over eighteen million copies of his books in print. His thrillers have been translated into twenty-two languages and turned into record-breaking films as well as top-rated TV miniseries. A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, David Morrell now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.