The Lenient Beast
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Among Brown's most highly praised books, The Lenient Beast is admired for the telling straightforwardness of its writing. It is also a remarkable portrait of a psychotic killer and a study of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0881844446
ISBN13:9780881844443
Release Date:January 1988
Publisher:Carroll & Graf Publishers
Length:191 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
An excellent mystery novel.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Fredric Brown's masterful mystery novel (which I read in one sitting) is a skillfully written tale featuring multiple first person perspectives. Fully developed characters and absoultely dead-on, realistic dialog kept me engaged throughout. Brown touches on a range of human issues such as interracial marriage, anti-semitism and alchoholism in a truthful manner and weaves this into a murder mystery laden with psychological torment, a la Jim Thompson. This is simply one of the best books I've read in a long time.
You've never read a detective novel quite like this one...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This novel of serial killings garners its strength from the bluntness and crispness of Brown's narrative; this is a detective novel with no moody lighting, no one-liners and no super cool hero. Each chapter presents a different view point, yet each latches onto the previous chapter to create a stifling tale of a week in a small town in the US south with a killer on the lose. This is the literary equivalent of Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth or Mystery Train - this is Pynchon rather than Spillane.
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