Dance Dance Dance

Author: Haruki Murakami

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780099448761
  • : Random House
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  • : December 2002
  • : 199mm X 130mm
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  • : 23.99
  • : November 2012
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  • : Haruki Murakami
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 895.6/35
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Description

"High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance."

Promotion info

An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.

Reviews

If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance Observer An entertaining mix of modern sci-fi, nail-biting suspense and ancient myth...a sometimes funny, sometimes sinister mystery spoof, but like all good postmodern fiction, it also aims at contemporary human concerns, philosophical as well as literary Chicago Tribune An entertaining adventure that takes us to the frozen north of Japan, to Hawaii and to the dark, damp corners of the imagination... Reading Dance Dance Dance is a bit like being taken blindfold on a joy-ride Independent Mr Murakami writes metaphysical Far Easterns with a Western beat...there are echoes of Raymond Chandler, John Irving and Raymond Carver, but Mr. Murakami's mysterious plots and original characters are very much his own creation New York Times Brilliantly combines elements of the surreal, film noir and existentialist enquiry Sunday Times

Author description

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.