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A Diet of Treacle by Lawrence Block

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A Diet of Treacle

Author
Lawrence Block
Narrator
Christian Conn
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publish Date
15 July 2009
Run Time
4 hours 29 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
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Anita Carbone was a good girl—and it bored her. That’s why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate—a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder …

Critics Review

  • “A potboiler morality play at its finest…will give readers the delicious (and all-too-rare) feeling that anything could happen.”

    Publishers Weekly

  • “Outstanding presentation”

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  • “No matter if he’s being dead serious or playing it for laughs, Block is always a great read.”

    Library Journal

  • “Like the best of the pulpers, Block writes out of the side of his mouth…slipping in a few body blows that draw real emotion.”

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Details
Author
Lawrence Block
Narrator
Christian Conn
Duration
4 hours 29 minutes
Release Date
15 July 2009
ISBN
9781602837232
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Genre
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction

Synopsis

Anita Carbone was a good girl—and it bored her. That’s why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate—a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder …

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