A Diet of Treacle, Lawrence Block
A Diet of Treacle, Lawrence Block
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A Diet of Treacle

Author: Lawrence Block

Narrator: Christian Conn

Unabridged: 4 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2009

Synopsis

Anita Carbone was a good girl—and it bored her. That’s why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate—a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder …

About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is the recipient of a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a New York Times bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series and dozens of short stories and articles. He has won multiple Edgar, and Shamus awards, two Falcon Awards from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, the Nero and Philip Marlowe Awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of America, and many others. Aside from being a mystery writer, he has also written a number of episodes for television, including two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt; he also cowrote the screenplay for the film My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones. Block currently lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.

About Christian Conn

Christian Conn is a classically trained actor. He has performed on stage in theaters across the United States and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His audiobook narrations include Roddy Doyle’s Oh, Play That Thing and Charlie Huston’s Six Bad Things and Caught Stealing. He earned a BFA from Rutgers University and studied at the London Academy of Theatre. Christian lives and works in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

Bourbon-drinking Block clearly hated the Beats in his 1961 quasi-existentialist nod to Camus, which turns into more of a version of Reefer Madness than The Stranger. Kerouac and Ginsberg take their hits here as romanticizing the Beat life as a trip to counter-culture Heaven, as Block’s version of th......more

Goodreads review by Mara

If it weren't for the fact that fellow Block fans have given this sub-stellar marks I would think that I had somehow lost the last 20 pages (presumably ones that would reveal a clever twist lurking just beneath the surface). Alas, it appears that I am not missing said pages, and that this simply is......more

Goodreads review by Greg

Some know it all hag decided it was a good idea to lecture me about the decrease in size of the stores mystery section (she was wrong actually, the section is bigger now than it ever was, but the customer is always right, right?) called the Hard Case Crime books, junkie books. She hated that we had......more

Quotes

“A potboiler morality play at its finest…will give readers the delicious (and all-too-rare) feeling that anything could happen.” Publishers Weekly

“Outstanding presentation” AudioFile

“No matter if he’s being dead serious or playing it for laughs, Block is always a great read.” Library Journal

“Like the best of the pulpers, Block writes out of the side of his mouth…slipping in a few body blows that draw real emotion.” Booklist

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