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First Lady (Paperback)

by Michael Malone (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Robinson Publishing; New edition edition (24 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841196487
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841196480
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 585,674 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"- 'Michael Malone has returned with a book which confirms his reputation as a first rate novelist.' Sunday Telegraph - 'This is an award-bound tale of mischief and compassion.' Guardian - 'A stylish gift for language... tender and believable... the characters come alive' Washington Post Book World - 'The Hammet-Chandler tradition is alive and well... all the right laconic flicks of humour, all the right humanity under the slick quickness that the old masters employed' H R F Keating


Guardian, April 27, 2002

'This is an award-bound tale of mischief and compassion...' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A belated return, 17 Jan 2003
By Mr. Warren M. Fisher (East Grinstead, West Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Lady (Hardcover)
It's great to have Malone back in Hillston, North Carolina after a decade (although things seemed to have only moved on a couple of years in this contained world), but perhaps inevitably this fails to match the awesome brilliance of 'Time's Witness'. Firstly this is narrated by Justin Savile, instead of his more attractive and interesting boss, Cuddy Mangum. Without our errant former narrator in charge we are at least free to follow the clean line of the novel's compelling narrative, but we are robbed of some of the preceeding work's scope and greatness (also ensuring this is a shorter book). More damagingly we are presented with the character of Mavis Mahar, Irish rock star and international superstar. Popular music in fiction almost always comes off as bogus and cheesy, the more earnestly presented the worst so (especially when chunks of risible fake lyrics are reproduced). The result is always toe-curlingly embarrassing. Combine this with the usual American portrayal of 'Begorrah Oirishness and speech littered with 'boyos' and 'so it is' - American authors always over-egg Irish and British characters and as ever this is embarrassingly quaint. This said Malone still manages to deliver a rip-roaring thriller jam-packed with humanity and humour, not least when Cuddy is on the scene.

Disappointing after the classic 'Time's Witness', this is still head and shoulders above most crime fiction - witty, thrilling and smart, Malone cannot fail but to deliver a work marked by his own genius.

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