- Audio CD
- Publisher: AudioGO; Unabridged edition (Mar 15 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 160998157X
- ISBN-13: 978-1609981570
- Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 13 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
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Product Description
Product Description
Mark Genevich is stuck in a rut: his narcolepsy isn't improving, his private-detective business is barely scraping by, and his landlord mother is forcing him to attend group therapy sessions. Desperate for companionship, Mark goes on a two-day bender with a new acquaintance, Gus, who is slick and charismatic—and someone Mark knows very little about. When Gus asks Mark to protect a friend who is being stalked, Mark inexplicably finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation and soon becomes the target of the police, a sue-happy lawyer, and a violent local bouncer. Will Mark learn to trust himself in time to solve the crime—and in time to escape with his life?
About the Author
Paul Tremblay is the author of The Little Sleep. He has won acclaim for his short fiction and received two nominations for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award.
Stephen R. Thorne is a professional actor and proud member of the Resident Acting Company at Providence's esteemed Trinity Repertory Company, where favorite productions include Hamlet, Henry V, and The Cider House Rules.
Stephen R. Thorne is a professional actor and proud member of the Resident Acting Company at Providence's esteemed Trinity Repertory Company, where favorite productions include Hamlet, Henry V, and The Cider House Rules.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful follow-up, Feb 15 2010
By Neal Hock "bookhound78" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: No Sleep till Wonderland: A Novel (Paperback)
The bar was set high by Tremblay's first release, The Little Sleep. However, in this follow-up to The Little Sleep, Tremblay delivers a powerful story featuring the unique narcoleptic detective, Mark Genevich. While Tremblay's wit is displayed throughout this novel, the mood and atmosphere is much darker than The Little Sleep. The reader is plunged into Genevich's world, often wondering what is reality and what is dreaming. Genevich becomes involved in a police investigation of an arson and death, becoming a suspect himself. As Genevich delves deeper into the mystery, the line between dream and reality becomes more blurred. His search for answers leads Genevich down a very dangerous path. Does he have the ability to discover the truth? Can he handle that truth?You won't be disappointed by this book. Tremblay is truly at the top of his game, and you would be missing a gem of a story if you miss out on this one.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
thoroughly enjoyable, Aug 5 2010
By Dave Zeltserman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: No Sleep till Wonderland: A Novel (Paperback)
Both of Paul Tremblay's Mark Genevich books, The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, are maybe the most inventive and enjoyable contemporary PI novels I've come across. Tremblay has a wonderful voice with very clever and funny observations that populate his writing. While The Little Sleep pays homage to Chandler's The Big Sleep is about Genevich uncovering dark secrets about his past, No Sleep Till Wonderland pays homage to Chandler's The Long Goodbye and is all about Genevich's present. The story has to do with Genevich trying to help out a friend and keep a woman safe, and while No Sleep is strongly plotted, it's Tremblay voice and strong+sympathetic characterization of narcoleptic PI, Mark Genevich, that makes this such a wonderful ride. It's impossible for me to recommend these two books strongly enough. Anyone with the slightest interest in crime fiction needs to read these, which in my mind are the very best of the Boston PI series.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Trembley Delivers Again! Great Writing & A Truly Classic Private Eye, Aug 19 2010
By R. A. Barricklow "Scaramouche" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: No Sleep till Wonderland: A Novel (Paperback)
I couldn't wait to reacquaint myself with private eye/narcoleptic Mark Genevich, not that I was losing any sleep over it. Like Mark says about being disrepectful to stories(in a group therapy-like setting), they don't happen the way that most are told. In real stories there's no order, no beginning, middle, or end. They are messy, unpredicable, and usually cruel.This then, is the in & out-of-it world that has become the reality for Mark, since the accident that led to his narcolepsy? It is the slipping between the worlds of sleep/awake that bring a metaphysical/wonderland-rabbit-hole perspective that the character appears to: dress-in/adress-to, make sence of what is real? His dialogue slip streams with this awareness that others are not privy to, but the reader is/Sounds like something the asleep me would do. He's a rascal, that one./My Jurassic age has giant gaps in the fossil record. Am I remembering what actually happened or remembering some previous retelling or reshaping of what actually happened?
The author never loses a grip on his character. This has to be phenomenal tasking on the author's part simply because/I'am a barely there cadaver who shouldn't be donated to science/It's a place for small-timers, their small deals, and their smaller dreams. I feel right at home/Oh, he's so smooth, like chunky-style peanut butter.
That's the kind of writing that nailed it for me in The Little Sleep & continues in spades with Wonderland. That the author can write such an easy to follow story with such an original off-beat character and do it so the reader readily goes along for the ride is/The driver doesn't believe in smooth acceleration or stop, bouncing me around the backseat like a ball bearing in a spray can.
So tell your family & friends to take a not-so-sleepy ride with Tremblay's narcoleptic detective, Mark Genevich/Great somebody told her, and I'm sure she's hardly the only person swinging on that grapevine.
HIGHLY Recommended !!!!!!!
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