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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: martini shot
    sub title: a novella and stories
  title info:
    title: Works. Selections
  name:
    name part: Pelecanos, George P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  genre: Short stories.
  genre: Noir fiction.
  genre: Mystery fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 295 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script. By turns heartbreaking and humane, brutal and funny, these finely constructed tales expose the violence and striving beneath the surface of any city and within any human heart. Tough, sexy, fast-paced, and crackling with energy, The Martini Shot is Pelecanos at his very best"--
  table of contents: The confidential informant -- Chosen -- String music -- When you're hungry -- Miss Mary's room -- Plastic Paddy -- The dead their eyes implore us -- The martini shot.
  note: George Pelecanos.
  subject:
    topic: Investigations
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Informers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Adoption
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Television cop shows
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Short stories
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Crime
  classification: PS3566.E354 A6 2015
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC029000 FIC050000
  identifier: 9780316284370 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0316284378 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2014019611
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140610
    record change date: 20151206125654.0
    record identifier: in00003503825
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng