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Plot Summary. Night Train is a 1997 novel by British author Martin Amis. A pastiche of hard-boiled American detective novels, Night Train follows Mike Hoolihan, a female detective in a “second-tier American city” as she investigates the suicide of beautiful astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell, the daughter of Hoolihan’s former boss, police ...
Jan 1, 1984 · "Night Train" is a kind of homage to Fritz Leiber's "Our Lady of Darkness." But while the latter book remains in my top ten favorite horror novels of all time, I fear that "Night Train" will be largely forgettable. Considered a classic among the paperback horror boom of the 70s through the 90s, this 1984 urban thriller has a lot going for it.
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Summary. PDF Cite. Night Train is a novel of mystery. The basic mystery concerns the death of Jennifer Rockwell: Her father, Tom Rockwell, a high-ranking police official, refuses to believe that ...
"In Night Train the moral quest of the book is to find bearable forms of self-consciousness. Political correctness heightens self-consciousness, and assumes this to be a good thing. In Night Train political correctness is part of a larger problem, of self-awareness experienced as an obscure punishment." - Adam Phillips, London Review of Books
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- Night Train
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- 1997
Jul 14, 2008 · In Night Train the jaded detective has a pretty good reason to be jaded after discovering the cause of her friend’s death since that death didn’t just say something about the depravity of humanity; it also said something about the state of the detective herself. So I think the potentially overdone tone was just a starting place (a great one) and Amis successfully transcended pastiche.
Feb 1, 1993 · Martin Amis. Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop--now top brass--takes her own life, no one is prepared to ...
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Sep 12, 2013 · Like any good noir, the conclusion to the tale comes all in a rush. Suddenly the mystery resolves itself, and even though Mike is narrating to us, she keeps us in the dark a few pages longer, as ...
