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65 reviews
Colin Harrison

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001

New York Noir at its Finest
Charlie Ravich is a very successful telecommunicaitons mogul in his late fifties, however he is racked with injuries he got during his time as a POW during the Vietnam war. On a trip to Hong Kong, where he is trying to get a factory built, he witnesses a murder and it winds up making him wealthy, very wealthy. But money won't buy you everything. Or will it. Charlie's son died from leukemia years ...

Afterburn: A Novel
Colin Harrison

Picador, 2007

Charlie Ravich is an international corporate tycoon, a husband and father on the hard side of fifty, and a restless soul in search of immortality. When Christina Welles, a prison parolee, well-schooled in the art of manipulation, walks into his life, Charlie thinks he just might have found what he's looking for. As she tries to outrun her past, and he to understand his future, two obsessions are about to be indulged.

The Finder: A Novel

12 reviews
Colin Harrison

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

An incredibly well-told tale
There is a vignette in THE FINDER, Colin Harrison's latest novel, that is worth buying and reading the whole book for. Actually, there are several --- several dozen --- but let's talk about just one right now. It involves two men, both named Ray Grant (one Jr., one Sr.). Sr. is an ex-NYPD detective who is dying from the inside out of cancer. He wants Jr., a somewhat enigmatic, extremely capable ...

Break and Enter: A Novel

6 reviews
Colin Harrison

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002

Stunned by the author's mastery
As I listened to Harrison's book on tape, I was stunned by his mastery. His thorough and painfully honest examination of the protagonist, his almost sadistic ability to continue suspense and increase tension, his beautiful prose style -- all of these make me admire this author. I am inspired by this novel.

Bodies Electric: A Novel

8 reviews
Colin Harrison

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002

Again, Harrison has fulfilled my life for 2 more days.
Fantastic! That's what I could only say to you guys without any chronicle backpains. I suffered a badback again last week and had to lie down in bed for 4 days. "Bodies Electric" had lightened my painful suffering for two days and enlightened me in the meantime. When I finished it, I could not help but shaking my head awkwardly on my pillows with amazement and appreciation. This review is also ...

Manhattan Nocturne: A Novel

31 reviews
Colin Harrison

Picador, 2008

Extreme Art and Filmmaking in 1970's NYC
The artistic temperment in NYC gone wild and why not?, This novel portrays art with myriad consorting muses taken to the extremes of passion and enabled at every moment for this creation to create and finalize itself whatever the cost. Where but in 1970's Manhatten, partly staged and choreographed in the bowels and skylights of a multi storied modernized early 1900 Bowery warehouse, with ...

The Havana Room: A Novel

30 reviews
Colin Harrison

Picador, 2007

Intriguing
The characters interwining stories along with the secrets of the Havana Room makes this a compelling read. I throughly enjoyed it.

Bodies Electric
Colin Harrison

Headline Book Publishing Ltd, 1994

Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881: Vision And Landscape

2 reviews
William Vaughan, Elizabeth E. Barker, ...

Lund Humphries Publishers, 2005

The scope and depth of Samuel Palmer's vision.
This is surely the most wide-ranging collection of Palmer's work in an illustrated book, of his scetches, paintings and etchings. Furthermore the accompanying essays by experts are excellent.

Samuel Palmer: Paintings and Drawings (Ashmolean Handbooks)

1 review
Colin Harrison

Ashmolean Museum, 2006

Glimpses of the earthly Paradise
Samuel Palmer as a young man was a disciple of William Blake, but had already struck out as an artist of the imagination. When he met Blake, Palmer confessed that he set about creating works of art "with fear and trembling." "Then you'll do," Blake said. Harrison's book contains what look to me like superb reproductions, admittedly small, of early masterpieces such as the suite of six ...

Irving Penn: A Career in Photography

4 reviews
Colin Eisler, Issey Miyake, ...

Bulfinch, 1997

Terrific
Great book for anybody interested in Penn's wor

Break and Enter: A Novel

6 reviews
Colin Harrison

Picador, 2008

Stunned by the author's mastery
As I listened to Harrison's book on tape, I was stunned by his mastery. His thorough and painfully honest examination of the protagonist, his almost sadistic ability to continue suspense and increase tension, his beautiful prose style -- all of these make me admire this author. I am inspired by this novel.

The Finder
Colin Harrison

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008

The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric ...

5 reviews
Barry Cox, Colin Harrison, ...

Simon & Schuster, 1999

An engrossing and informative volume for laymen or experts
This volume is the best one I've found on prehistoric creatures. Having always been fascinated by them, I wanted as an adult to find something to broaden the base I'd built as a kid obsessed with Tyrannosaurus and trilobites. Though I'm far from a paleontologist or even a biologist (my own training is in anthropology and linguistics) I find this book a pleasure to browse and consult. ...

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