Devil's valley
1st U.S. ed.
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Publication
1999 - Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
100,250 words, Guess
Page Count
401 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL378444M
- ISBN-100151004404
- OCLC Control Number39727863
- OCLC Control Numberdevilsvalley00brin
- Library of Congress Control Number98040513
and 2 more
- Goodreads1704500
- LibraryThing211345
Classifications
- DDC823
- LCCPR9369.3.B7 D48 1999
Description
When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist running from a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts by the lake in Devil's Valley, he thinks it is a mirage. He waits, but then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the truth" first hinted at by Little-Lukas, a young student in Capetown who was mysteriously killed. Lochner meets Lukas Death's solitary clan, where righteousness prevails by day and depravity by night, where punishment for misdemeanors is summary, yet brutal murderers walk unscathed. Secrecy abounds. Everyone has a story and yet no one tells the story, the story of Little-Lukas and Emma, the woman with the four breasts - the uneasy reminder to the community of the original sin at the root of their history, a secret hidden collectively by the valley people.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction.
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