Dirty Snow (New York Review Books Classics)
Editorial Reviews
William Vollmann
"The king of the noir novels."
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“what many regard as the finest of all noir novels…"--Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2003
“Dirty Snow is an astonishing work....a bleak masterpiece, its darkness is as William T. Vollmann writes in a perceptive afterword, 'as solid and heavy as the interior of a dwarf star.'” --John Banville, The New Republic, 11 April 2005
“Dirty Snow is both exhilirating and taxing: exhilirating because it frees the reader to imagine unthinkable acts of violence and degradation and, if not to approve of them exactly, then at least to better understand their origin; and taxing because of the effort it takes to even visit Simenon’s nihilist world for a while. ... Dirty Snow has an eerie locomotion, an eerie appeal.” -- Bill Eichenberger, Columbus Dispatch
“Simenon may not have thought much of humanity, but few writers have captured its squalid core the way he did.” --Time Out New York
“Ranks among the highest… superbly written”--Crime and Mystery: The Best 100 Books - “Stain on the Snow”
“Extraordinary… Simenon demonstrates a rare mastery"--Anita Brookner
“A Master storyteller… Simenon gave to the puzzle story a humanity that it had never had before.”--Daily Telegraph
“The best mystery writer today is a Belgian who writes in French. His name is Georges Simenon.”--Dashiell Hammett
“A truly wonderful writer… marvellously readable, lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates.”--Muriel Spark
“One of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right.”--Hans Konning
“the great master of unease”--Marcel Clements, International Herald Tribune.
“The gift of narration is the rarest of all gifts in the 20th century. Georges Simenon has that to the tips of his fingers.”--Thorton Wilder
“At his best, Simenon is an all-round master craftsman- ironic, disciplined, highly intelligent, with fine descriptive power. His themes are timeless in their preoccupation with the interrelation of evil, guilt and good; contemporary in their fidelity to the modern context and Gallic in precision, logic and a certain emanation of pain or disquiet. His fluency is of course astonishing. His life is itself a work by Simenon.”
Francis Steegmuller
“Georges Simenon is more than prolific. His psychological intensity and compression of style mark him as a leading writer of the Century.”-- The New York Times
"Georges Simenon is a recent discovery for me -- not the Maigret books, but what Simenon called his "romans durs", such as "Dirty Snow" and "Three Bedrooms in Manhattan" -- and hard they are indeed. The latest of these New York Review Books reissues, "Tropic Moon" (translated from the French by Marc Romano) is a dark masterpiece set among French colonials in heart-of-darkness Gabon in the early 1930s. Cruel, erotic, frightening and superb." -- John Banville, The Los Angeles Times
Dirty Snow (New York Review Books Classics)
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