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The Gunman (Movie Tie-In Edition)
The Gunman (Movie Tie-In Edition)
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The Gunman, originally published as The Prone Gunman, is now a major motion picture starring Sean Penn. This is the official movie tie-in edition. The film, opening March 20th, 2015, also stars Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, and is directed by Pierre Morel (Taken).
About The Gunman: Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game, so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans for him. In a violent tale that shatters as many illusions as bodies, Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style. This tightly plotted, corrosive parody of "the success story" is widely considered to be Manchette's masterpiece, and was named a New York Times "Notable Book" in 2002. The Gunman is a classic of modern noir.
Also available in its original edition titled The Prone Gunman, along with Manchette's Three to Kill, published by City Lights in 2002.
"There's not a superfluous word or overdone effect . . . one of the last cool, compact and shockingly original crime novels Manchette left as his legacy to modern noir fiction." New York Times
"This is lean, mean noir fiction that cleverly sends up the tough guy genre while incarnating it perfectly." Detroit Free Press
"Manchette is a master of both economy and irony. Brutal and bracing: Terrier's tale fascinates even as it chills." Kirkus Reviews
For Manchette and the generation of writers who followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that are the society's true engines." Boston Globe
"Jean-Patrick Manchette's terse prose moves like the swift, almost automatic methods and mannerisms of his protagonist." Wall Street Journal
About The Gunman: Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game, so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans for him. In a violent tale that shatters as many illusions as bodies, Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style. This tightly plotted, corrosive parody of "the success story" is widely considered to be Manchette's masterpiece, and was named a New York Times "Notable Book" in 2002. The Gunman is a classic of modern noir.
Also available in its original edition titled The Prone Gunman, along with Manchette's Three to Kill, published by City Lights in 2002.
"There's not a superfluous word or overdone effect . . . one of the last cool, compact and shockingly original crime novels Manchette left as his legacy to modern noir fiction." New York Times
"This is lean, mean noir fiction that cleverly sends up the tough guy genre while incarnating it perfectly." Detroit Free Press
"Manchette is a master of both economy and irony. Brutal and bracing: Terrier's tale fascinates even as it chills." Kirkus Reviews
For Manchette and the generation of writers who followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that are the society's true engines." Boston Globe
"Jean-Patrick Manchette's terse prose moves like the swift, almost automatic methods and mannerisms of his protagonist." Wall Street Journal
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