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Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth (Paperback)

by Malcolm Pryce (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (1 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747593175
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747593171
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50,202 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Hilarious' Daily Telegraph 'Malcolm Pryce is the king of Welsh noir Edgar Allan Poe meets Phoenix Nights in a flurry of blood-stained absurdity' Sunday Telegraph 'Inventive, funny and dark, Pryce packs more style into a sentence than most authors could hope for in volumes' Big Issue 'Pryce really is in a league of his own. If only Aberystwyth really was like this' Time Out


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`Another wonderfully silly fantasy ... the old magic is alive and well' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars O' little town of Aberystwyth!, 7 April 2007
By Bookworm (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth (Hardcover)
A Christmas setting for Louie Knight this time, but there's not much "comfort and joy" in Aberystwyth. A man in a Santa Claus suit has been viciously murdered and his body left in a state that wouldn't be out of place in the Da Vinci Code!! I loved its absurdity and fabulously descriptive writing, as I did with the other "Aberystwyth" novels, but I found this one much more reflective, a little darker and to be honest, much sadder, as many more brutal and needless killings occur. Of all four books, I think this one deserves the genre description "noir" the most. Very inventive and joyously ridiculous in parts, but not as many laughs this time, and some unfinished business - is the pin still in Mrs Llantrisant's photo?
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4.0 out of 5 stars Noir Rarebit, 15 April 2007
By Rob Hymer (Middlesbrough, North-East England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth (Hardcover)
As the other reviewer pointed out, probably the darkest of the four books, but not without great comedy moments. Answers the question of what Welsh hitmen should look like, and worth price of admission for that alone. Confusing from beginning to end, but that is after all the mark of a good noir detective story. Enjoy.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Don't Laugh For Me Aberystwyth, 27 Aug 2007
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This review is from: Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth (Hardcover)
When you look at the ingredients of this book - dead Santas, Nazi hunters, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Welsh Secret Service - you'd be forgiven for assuming it to be a deranged work of bewildering surrealism. Malcolm Pryce, however, has the knack of making the bizarre seem believable - the oddness never hinders the plot and thus you're left with a genuinely gripping and inventive thriller populated with some undeniably unusual yet never ludicrous characters.

Much of the success of this series is down to Pryce's prose which is brilliantly evocative and leaves many better-known writers in the shade. In an ideal world Pryce would be as big as Pratchett.

One niggle - the Louie Knight books are promoted as comedies (the jacket describes this one as "hilarious") but they've never been over-burdened with laughs and, as other reviewers have mentioned, this volume is darker still. A little less introspection and a few more laughs would be nice next time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the darkest, and the best yet
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