Joseph Kanon
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Joseph Kanon began his career in publishing while an undergraduate at Harvard, reading manuscripts for The Atlantic Monthly. Kanon traveled to England for graduate school, then returned to the United States to work as a book review editor and writer for the Saturday Review. Rising through the ranks vis mere of the publishing world, he eventually became president and CEO of E.P. Dutton, and then executive vice president of Houghton Mifflin's Trade and Reference Division. Kanon is the author of Los Alamos (1997), an authentic fictional recreation of the waning days of World War II during which the murder of one of the Manhattan Project's security officers occurs. The Prodigal Spy was published in late 1998. His novel, Leaving Berlin, is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: reading at the National Book Festival, Washington, D.C. By slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72267068
Værker af Joseph Kanon
The Defectors 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Oppenheimer and The Manhattan Project: Insights Into J Robert Oppenheimer, "Father Of The Atomic Bomb" (Manhattan… (2005) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
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- 1946
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Pennsylvania, USA
- Bopæl
- Pennsylvania, USA
New York, New York, USA - Uddannelse
- Harvard University
University of Cambridge (Trinity College) - Erhverv
- publisher
writer
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Istanbul Passage: A Novel af Joseph Kanon
The NYT reviewer was speaking of me when he wrote "Some readers may find that Kanon’s thriller-ish style takes some getting used to, especially his telegrammatic dialogue reduced. To such. Staccato bursts that. It risks becoming. Unintelligible." However, I did like this story; it was fast paced and a quick read even though a bit confusing as I tried to figure out who worked for whom...but I guess that's par for the course with suspense fiction.
Entertaining and philosophical, paints a picture of what it might have been like then but the mystery part of it was a little disappointing. Leads seemed to come out of nowhere by chance rather than cleverly leading from one to the next.
Joseph Kanon continues to write excellent cold war fiction; this is another fine example.
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