- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Random House Trade Pbk. Ed edition (31 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0812968212
- ISBN-13: 978-0812968217
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.3 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,324,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The inspiration behind Ridley Scott’s new movie—starring Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell—by the acclaimed cult author of Anonymous Rex
Roy and Frankie are matchstick men—con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry for a big score. He wants Roy to join him in running a tricky game, but Roy is distracted by the discovery that he is the father of a punky teenage daughter from a brief marriage that ended years ago. The kid wants to get to know her father. She also wants to learn the family business. Novelist Eric Garcia takes readers into the fast and funny world of grifters with issues. Matchstick Men is a dazzling literary con game that will keep readers guessing until the last page.
Roy and Frankie are matchstick men—con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry for a big score. He wants Roy to join him in running a tricky game, but Roy is distracted by the discovery that he is the father of a punky teenage daughter from a brief marriage that ended years ago. The kid wants to get to know her father. She also wants to learn the family business. Novelist Eric Garcia takes readers into the fast and funny world of grifters with issues. Matchstick Men is a dazzling literary con game that will keep readers guessing until the last page.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Roy and Frankie are partners in con, ripping off everyone who crosses their paths from college kids to home making women to greedy men. But Roy is also suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Frankie hooks him up with psychiatrist Dr. Klein so he can get the pills he needs. Dr. Klein in turn hooks Roy up with a daughter he never knew he had. Angela, fourteen, is eager to have a dad and wants to learn all about his job. Pretty soon she's helping. Pretty soon Roy wants to give up all his tricks in order to gain custody of her, but Frankie convinces him they should play the con game one more time ... just one more time.
MATCHSTICK MEN is one of the best books I have read this spring. It is fast, full of twists and cons, cleanly and cleverly plotted, and peopled with characters who, while not brilliant, are sturdy enough to hold up their ends of the book. Angela especially will keep you reading. For me, the ending was a complete surprise and it left me thinking the whole book through again from a different angle. I found it a resounding and fitting wrapup for a book of cons, hinted at but unexpected.
If you like fast, absorbing, perfectly plotted little books of petty crime with a twist, MATCHSTICK MEN is a treasure I couldn't recommend more highly.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Eric Garcia's writing is so slick it seems like he's written a film as a novel. This does lift the characters off the page but unofortuatley their not engaging enough to fully empathise with.
We're presented with an aging con-artist and a young one. Two characters that just seemed to be stock gangsters. Its better left to the imagination as there are many holes in this book but it is certainly entertaining and will make a lot of money as a film...
We're presented with an aging con-artist and a young one. Two characters that just seemed to be stock gangsters. Its better left to the imagination as there are many holes in this book but it is certainly entertaining and will make a lot of money as a film...
But all in all if you want to enjoy to its fullest i recommend the film which might serve a better purpose of exploring the characters and incidents than the book did.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
have you seen the sixth sense i m sure you would not any one to reveal the end ?do you? well it s the same for this movie it s like in fight club toward the end stop rewind you ve been fool all along
and this movie is funny and well acted by nicola cage etc
the novel is even better i read it after watching the book so i got all the caracter faces into mi head exept that the main caracter is fat so it s a bit hard to imagine cage fat
and this movie is funny and well acted by nicola cage etc
the novel is even better i read it after watching the book so i got all the caracter faces into mi head exept that the main caracter is fat so it s a bit hard to imagine cage fat
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