The Dead Heart

by Douglas Kennedy

Book Overview

En Australie, de nos jours. Je n'avais rien contre l'Australie avant d'?craser un kangourou par une nuit sans lune et de rencontrer Angie sur une plage ensoleill?e. Douce, chaude, Angie. Un vrai r?ve... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349106452
• ISBN13: 9780349106458
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Funny, witty, scary... a book like no other

I discovered Douglas Kennedy thanks to "In God's Country". Curious to read more about him and his writing, I decided to go for his very first novel. I was not disappointed one bit! This book is so grabbing that it is almost impossible to put down once you've started reading it. Sorry I will not say much about the story (I do not want to spoil it). Just know that you will travel alongside this guy who is kind of looking for something missing in his life and that his trip to Australia will take a turn that no one could have predicted. It starts for the better before getting close to the worst. The writing is speedy and humorous before getting dark and somewhat scary. A great great great book.

A Grand Adventure and Mystery in the Australian Outback

Set in the modern Australian outback, this novel is a real grabber. A traveler picks up a young woman hitchhiker, and she takes him to a very strange town, from which he cannot leave. A great adventure and highly recommended. I would also highly recommend the other two Douglas Kennedy novels I have read--"The Job" and especially "The Big Picture" (I stayed up to two o'clock reading this story of a lawyer who kills his neighbor, takes over the man's identity, and disappears, starting a new life with the man's trust-fund checks). The Big Picture

An excellent fast read...

This is a short, dark-as-they-get, comic novel which rips along at a furious pace. I was careful not to read too much about it, as I hate spoilers, so I also will not tell you very much about the story. I'd really enjoyed a couple of Doug Kennedy's other books, so I trusted him and was not disappointed. His descriptive prose is spot-on and his energy infectious. The book is a 1st person account of a "facing midlife" crisis which goes weirdly, wackily, wombatily awry. One of the backcover reviews of my British edition said, "If you read this on your way to Australia, you won't want to get off the plane."