**Raymond Chandler meets Jonathan Lethem in this wickedly entertaining debut featuring Mark Genevich, Narcoleptic Detective** Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: heβs narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnogogic hallucinations. These waking
The little sleep: a novel
β Scribed by Paul Tremblay
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co.
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Edition
- 1. edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0805088490
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β¦ Synopsis
The wickedly entertaining debut featuring Mark Genevich, Narcoleptic Detective
Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: he's narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnogogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to make his living.
Clients haven't exactly been beating down the door when Mark meets Jennifer Times--daughter of the powerful local D.A. and a contestant on American Star--who walks into his office with an outlandish story about a man who stole her fingers. He awakes from his latest hallucination alone, but on his desk is a manila envelope containing risquΓ© photos of Jennifer. Are the pictures real, and if so, is Mark hunting a blackmailer, or worse?
Wildly imaginative and with a pitch-perfect voice, Paul Tremblay's The Little Sleep is the first in a new series that casts a fresh eye on the rigors of detective work, and...
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