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BIBLIOGRAPHY

ISBN: 1901982327
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Price: £9.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 300pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: July 1998

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Kem Nunn lives in Northern California and is the author of Pomona Queen, Tapping the Source and The Dogs of Winter. His new novel Tijuana Straits will be published by No Exit in January 2005.

Films of both The Dogs of Winter and Tapping the Source may be appearing soon.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

People came to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker came to look for his sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike looked into the shadows and found parties that drifted towards pointless violence, joyless violations and highs you might never come down from....and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone bad.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Kem Nunn writes directly out of the lineage of James M Cain and Raymond Chandler. If there is a contemporary writer with a deeper sense of evil, I don't know who it would be..." - Jim Harrison,

"...perhaps the ultimate beach read..." - Scott H. Urban, Pif Magazine

"...What Hemingway's Nick Adams did for fishing, Kem Nunn does for surfing. Through the sensibility of its hero and the sensitivity of its author, Tapping the Source puts you there and makes you understand..." - Saturday Review

"...Tense and driven with a sense of the apocalypse around the corner..." - Washington Post

"...God bless Kem Nunn, one of a rare breed, a novelist who knows how to write and isn't afraid to plot and tell a story..." - Elmore Leonard,