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Pocket, 1981. Good. In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest-"The Virgin Tramp"-and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front page s in a couple of days" becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just after World War II. Pla yed in the film version by Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro respectively, T om is a homicide detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Churc h. The murder investigation provides the background against which are playe d the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers. Theirs is a world of fav ors and fixes, power and promises, inhabited by priests and pimps, cops and contractors, boxers and jockeys and lesbian fight promoters and lawyers wh o know how to put the fix in. A fast-paced and often hilarious classic of contemporary fiction, True Confessions is…
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- Title True Confessions
- Author Dunne, John Gregory
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- Publisher POCKET, New York
- Date October 2, 1981
- ISBN 9780671422288
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