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Missy (Paperback)

by Chris Hannan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (2 Jul 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099501554
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099501558
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,871 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`Chris Hannan deftly mixes adventure and redemption with the gritty reality of the frontier and flips Wild West assumptions on their behind. Recommended' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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`the stoned and disorderly heroine of playwright Chris Hannan's debut novel, has a lot going for her as a character' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking, terrifying and hilarious, 12 May 2008
By Ms. T. Park "Theo Park" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missy (Hardcover)
I saw Chris Hannan's stage play "Shining Souls" when it was on in London - it was one of the best plays I've been to. Now in his first novel "Missy" he takes us on a journey across silver-rush America in the company of Dol McQueen as she flees a vicious pimp and a terrifying gang of damaged kids sent to hunt her down and reclaim the opium she's stolen. The story telling is extraordinary - an adventure across the landscape that slowly and shockingly reveals the true nature of Dol's flight. The things she's running from more terrible than even the vengeful Harry Fan the Chinese gangster and rightful owner of the opium ("He once gave a girlfriend of ours chloroform, then skinned her face") The scene where Dol discovers quite how disturbed her mother really is had the hairs come up on the back of my neck before it brought me to tears. Hannan's writing is superbly vivid, arresting, occasionally brutal and yet regularly laugh out loud funny. This is an important book that gives you everything you might expect of a great and totally original western, while weaving in an epic journey to understanding and forgiveness. I've never read anything like it before and I've read tons.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, shocking, unique, refreshing, unexpected., 25 April 2008
By A. Scott "tuxford" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missy (Hardcover)
Not enough superlatives to cover this book and the characters therein.The women are tough, rough, wild, strong, determined and shocking. The men violent, scary, dispicable. Pontius - the best baddie in years - - a low down dirty SOB with no redeeming qualities at all. The way Hannan captures the heat, dust and desperation had me hooked and thirsty for more. I recommend this book as highly as a person can!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Missy - Shin out and buy a copy!, 27 April 2008
By R. Hunt "Robs" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Missy (Hardcover)
This book is amazing on every level, I totally adore it and cannot recommend it highly enough. Set in California in 1862, this is tale of the old American west with a difference - it's some 'flash-girls' that go off and have themselves a high old adventure in the middle of the Nevada desert. Oh, yes, and there's a crate of stolen 'Missy' (Opium), an evil pimp, some creepy lawless kids, and some Indians too. They've a lot to contend with.

Written using first person narration we see the world through the eyes of 19 year old prostitute Dol McQueen, who is so alive, so free and so darn sassy! Hannan has captured her voice so completely, so truthfully, the effect is startlingly magical. She will make you laugh, she will make you yearn, she will make you cry and despair.

For underneath the vibrant, audacious, and often humorous plot set against the very visceral, yet somehow mythic landscape of California, Hannan presents us with much darker themes to explore. We are taken into the world of the saloon and asked to confront the harsh social conditions under which these women lived and worked. It is a world where suicide and addiction are commonplace, a world where the the women are prevented from having truly loving and fulfilling relationships with men. It is a world where the only family these displaced women have is each other, for better or worse.

Indeed, it is the theme of family which lies at the heart of this book in its depiction of Dol's unfulfilled relationship with her alcoholic mother, which I found to be real, truthful, sadly comic and a deeply moving deptiction of the nature of addiction and the repercussions for loved ones. It is testament to Hannan's strength as a writer in the way he handles the outcome for these characters, things are left between them the only way they can be. Yet, Hannan still manages to provide us with plenty of hope too.

Look, I don't want to spoil it any further for you, please, just go out and read it for yourselves, you'll not regret it.



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