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Title details for Hard Light by Elizabeth Hand - Available

Hard Light

#3 in series

by Elizabeth Hand
Carol Monda
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As her passionately devoted fans know, Elizabeth Hand is a uniquely gifted storyteller. Readers were introduced to her iconoclastic crime novels, featuring offbeat photographer Cass Neary, in the underground classic Generation Loss, which was followed by the brilliant Available Dark.

In Hard Light, the third book in the series, Cass makes a remarkable discovery that could change our understanding of human history—if she lives long enough to share it.

As the story opens, Cass arrives in London where she's arranged to meet her long-lost lover, Quinn O'Boyle. When Quinn fails to show at their rendezvous point, Cass meets the eccentric couple Mallo and Morven Dunfries. When Mallo catches Cass rifling his medicine cabinet in search of drugs, he threatens to turn her in to the authorities, then puts her to work as a runner for his illegal goods.

Cass makes a delivery to Poppy Teasel, a famous singer from long ago. Cass leaves Poppy's flat but returns a short time later to find the place ransacked and Poppy dead. Fearful she'll become the next victim, Cass goes on the run.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Cass Neary

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    April 19, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781504690959
      • File size: 288248 KB
      • Duration: 10:00:30

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Cass Neary is a fascinating original, a hard-bitten outsider who has lived by her wits since she was a teenager on New York's punk scene. She's a photographer, old-school. The hard light of Hand's title is a technical term central to the denouement of her ingenious plot, which turns on both emotional and neolithic archaeology. Elizabeth Hand writes like an angel, and Carol Monda has a beautiful cello voice, used with impressive skill here to inhabit a world of superannuated British ex-hippies and their multigenerational collateral damage. The plot's mounting tumulus of crimes and sins would defy belief, if Hand hadn't gotten the details so totally right, and Monda's supple performance finds the emotional truth in every scene, and makes you feel it. B.G. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 15, 2016
      Last seen in 2012’s Available Dark, photographer Cass Neary is a wreck in Hand’s loosely plotted third outing for the middle-aged, rock and roll–loving alcoholic and depressive druggie. Having escaped mysteriously from a reunion in Iceland with long-ago boyfriend Quinn, Cass lands in gritty North London with only a backpack, her Konica SLR, random uppers, some cash, and one fake and one genuine passport. From there she stumbles from one squalid flat to another, encountering weirdo after weirdo, expecting Quinn at every turn. Instead, she discovers a body—that of Poppy, a former punk singer, followed by other, possibly related bodies. Later, she winds up in a dilapidated Cornwall farmhouse, where she meets a number of folks with creepy connections to Poppy. Along this dubious route, Cass conveys an expert’s knowledge of the 1970s East Village punk scene, Iron Age rituals, Paleolithic icons, and the intricacies of photography and film noir. Somehow it all adds up to a gripping, if unlikely, tale. Agent: Martha Millard, Martha Millard Literary Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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