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True Confessions

True Confessions

Dunne, John Gregory
Pelecanos, George P.

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1560258152
ISBN13: 9781560258155
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Nov 30 2005
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest--The Virgin Tramp--and suddenly a nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of days becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just after World War II. Played in the film version by Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro respectively, Tom is a homicide detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Church. The murder investigation provides the background against which are played the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers. Theirs is a world of favors and fixes, power and promises, inhabited by priests and pimps, cops and contractors, boxers and jockeys and lesbian fight promoters and lawyers who know how to put the fix in. A fast-paced and often hilarious classic of contemporary fiction, True Confessions is about a crime that has no solutions, only victims. More important, it is about the complex relationship between Tom and Des Spellacy, each tainted with the guilt and hostility that separate brothers.

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