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Stardust will be released on September 29, 2009 in Hardcover
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The Good GermanWith World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam...Read More
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Globe and Mail, November 27, 2009
...Arthur Beauchamp, one of Canadian crime fictions truly original characters. The best novel by Deverell ever. STARDUST By Joseph Kanon, Atria Books Hollywood glamour, post-Second World War noir atmosphere, lies, betrayal, HUAC and the Holocaust. This...
Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2009
..." Ask him about the drugs and the Beatles. Things get underway at 10:30 a.m. with Joseph Kanon ("Stardust"), to be followed by Susan Kandel ("Dial H for Hitchcock"), Charlie Huston ("My Dead Body") and Frank Beddor, whose amped-up graphic-novel...
Globe and Mail, October 20, 2009
...swept away (though, luckily for me, the buildings used by Allied Occupation officials are still there). Stardust, by Joseph Kanon, Atria Books, 504 pages, $36 Stardust, by Joseph Kanon, Atria Books, 504 pages, $36 Los Angeles presented a different...
USA Today, October 14, 2009
...compelling account of pain and hardship linked to one of history's great tragedies. ? Memmott Stardust By Joseph Kanon Atria, 504 pp., $27.99 Joseph Kanon, who toiled in the publishing industry before he began writing World War II-era thrillers, knows...
Metronews, October 13, 2009
...Publisher: Atria Books Price: $36 (Hardcover) In the thrilling post-Second World War novel Stardust by Joseph Kanon, protagonist Ben Collier enters the world of American filmmaking only to become embroiled in a plot of epic proportions. Heâ??s...
Book Reporter, October 10, 2009
...Let?s set the scene: Hollywood, 1945, a town entrenched in cocktail parties, cast parties and political parties. Partying is the town?s pastime. At one such party, a senator is the guest of honor, talking with studio heads, actors, filmmakers ---...
Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2009
...of whom can concoct just as heady, relentless a plot as anything involving symbols or codes. To wit: Joseph Kanon, whose ahem literary thriller Stardust is so engrossing it kept me from even taking a peek into The Lost Symbol, which was waiting right...
Washington Post, October 6, 2009
...In 'Stardust,' Joseph Kanon does a noir take on a noir time and place: Hollywood in the late '40s. There's an image-within-an-image effect here that evokes the hall-of-mirrors shootout in 'The Lady...
Denver Post, October 4, 2009
...Stardust, by Joseph Kanon, $27.99. James Ellroy fans will find a lot to like in this gritty look at post-World War II Hollywood from Edgar-winner Kanon, author of 'Los Alamos.' Kanon perfectly...
Telegraph, September 4, 2009
...Park by Martin Cruz Smith A Californian writing about Russia in a Scandinavian way. 18 Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon My current favourite writers debut excellent. 19 Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell Theres a reason she became so popular and this is it. 20...
National Post, September 2, 2009
...Companion fame, graphic novelist Seth, and acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead. ? R.O. Blechman ? Eric Laurrent ? Joseph Kanon ? Kathy Reichs ? Michael Connelly ? William Deverell ? Stuart Berman ? Graeme Gibson ? Jacob Scheier ?...
Chronicle Herald, July 22, 2009
...as a homicide policeman and take up work as a house detective with a well-known hotel. Stardust by Joseph Kanon (Atria, September) In 1997, Joseph Kanon won an Edgar Award for best first novel for Los Alamos. Recently his novel The Good Shepherd was made...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 14, 2009
...Central Publishing, $26.99). A troubled relationship between a man and his stepfather frames the plot. 'Stardust' by Joseph Kanon (Atria Books, $27.95). Historical novelist Kanon uses the Hollywood film studios as the backdrop of this post-World War II...
Joy's Blog, January 2, 2010
...Homer & Langley . E.L. Doctorow [review to come] The Uncommon Reader . Alan Bennett [review to come] Stardust . Joseph Kanon [review to come] The Lover . Marguerite Duras [review to come] Santa Clawed . Rita Mae Brown [review to come] Christmas Card...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, December 16, 2009
...& Noble Review : Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Joseph Kanon Michael Specter The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Ivory's Ghosts: The...
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Dead Things ON Sticks, October 19, 2009
...typewriter off to a hotel room to write, Canadian novelist Annabel Lyon ( The Golden Mean ) and American author Joseph Kanon ( Stardust ) install themselves in a public library. Some writers walk their dogs – excellent procrastination facilitators...
Chefdruck Musings, September 5, 2009
...Stardust , the latest novel by Joseph Kanon, reads like a great black and white classic movie. From the first sentence, "As it happened, Sol Lasner was also on the train," the reader is propelled in...
The Wooden Spoon, June 1, 2009
...sign of honest concern. Ditto the Macmillan / Picador publicist I clearly offended — she offered me a Joseph Kanon galley and I asked if they had anything 'more literary'. Whoops! Blame it on the gridded streets. They give me vertigo...
Ready When You Are, C.B., March 30, 2009
...war setting has been explored before, done wonderfully well in Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir series and in Joseph Kanon's The Good German, but Tokyo Year Zero sets the mystery in post war Japan instead of post war Germany. While what happened in Germany is...
