Gorky Park

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• Injury Time

  Between the three corpses dug out of the snow in Gorky Park, Moscow and the sables let loose in the snow on Staten Island at the end – ‘black on white, black on white, and then gone’ – there are connections of cause and effect such as few crime novel ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

• Thrillernik

  If, as Auden suggested, the ideal detective-story reader desires an unchanging fictional world in which the same problem is endlessly repeated with minor variations, the ideal reader of a thriller demands almost the opposite, a fix of continuous nove ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

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  I found Gorky Park to be above average as it peddles fewer cliches and offers more sympathetic characterizations than run of the mill bestsellers. The ending, however, was just a little abrupt.

  In a nutshell, Gorky Park is good entertainment at a manageable length.

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  Jubei said on Jan 3, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I had just gotten back from Moscow when I read this, it was like going right back. Wonderfull

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  Alana Scyleia said on Nov 25, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 448 Pages
• Edition: Reissue
• ISBN-10: 0345298349
• ISBN-13: 9780345298348
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Pub date: Feb 12, 1982
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Unbound and Others
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken

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