Shoot The Piano Player

Author: David Goodis

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  • : $5.00 AUD
  • : 9780679732549
  • : Random House Publishing Group
  • : Random House Inc
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  • : 0.45
  • : 01 October 1990
  • : 0.50000mm X 5.25000mm X 7.75000mm
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  • : 21.99
  • : 25 May 1990
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  • : David Goodis
  • : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780679732549
9780679732549

Description

Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.

Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.