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Black Water Rising Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Attica Locke

From a powerful new voice in American fiction comes a brilliant debut legal thriller, written in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Scott Turow, involving murder, greed, and redemption and set in the oil boomtown of 1980s Houston.


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Attica Locke--a writer and producer of FOX's Empire--delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)

"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented plot.... Attica Locke [is] a writer wise beyond her years."?-- Los Angeles Times

"Atmospheric... deeply nuanced... akin to George Pelecanos or Dennis Lehane.... Subtle and compelling."?-- New York Times

--James Ellroy, author of American Tabloid and L.A. Confidential

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Attica Locke--a writer and producer of FOX's Empire--delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)

"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented plot.... Attica Locke [is] a writer wise beyond her years."
-- Los Angeles Times

"Atmospheric... deeply nuanced... akin to George Pelecanos or Dennis Lehane.... Subtle and compelling."
-- New York Times

Details

  • Title Black Water Rising
  • Author Attica Locke
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Amistad Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-04-20
  • ISBN 9780061735851 / 006173585X
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.58 x 1.09 in (20.22 x 14.17 x 2.77 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Legal stories, Suspense fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 06/06/2010, Page 44
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