The Black Marble Book

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The black marble book.

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The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. Table of contents 1. The book is a bit difficult at first as mr wambaugh devotes a different chapter to each character and whilst they are funny and have some acute things to say about human nature it is hard to see. La buena vida 3.

The big sewer 6. The black marble 1978 is i think joseph wambaugh s triumph. Charlie lightfoot 13. The black marble summary study guide the black marble summary joseph wambaugh is primarily concerned with the emotional cost of being a policeman but he widens his focus in this novel to include the loneliness of a socially well connected but discarded wife and the world of championship show dogs.

The batushka 2. The black marble spends most of the book developing character and less time on the caper. The terrier king 4. The fiddler 11.

Natalie zimmerman harry dean stanton as philo skinner barbara babcock as madeline whitfield john hancock as clarence cromwell raleigh bond as capt. Robert foxworth as sgt. The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. Suicide bridge 14.

It is a near perfect crime novel. The black marble pool is a murder mystery but it didn t really work for me in this context. The rabbit 5. Valnikov paula prentiss as sgt.

The characters are so deep and true the humour is totally human the situations are tense desperate and awful but that sick sense of humour of wambaugh s works so well. The black marble that s what losers like val and philo always wind up with should hive been better than it is. The dog love 12. This is only the second book i have read by this author as i always assumed his books would be quite gory not sure where i got that idea from but in actual fact they are laugh out loud funny.