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| Dope | 
 enlarge | Author: Sara Gran
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 142410
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0425214362
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780425214367
ASIN: 0425214362
Publication Date: February 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Over 600,000 Feedbacks Posted!!! Great Buy!!!*** Never Used*** May Have a Publisher's Mark~We have over 3,500,000 Books Sold!!!
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Product Description
From the author of Come Closer comes the most highly acclaimed-and unusual-thriller of the year. Josephine, a former addict, is offered a thousand dollars to find a suburban couple's missing daughter. But the search will take her into the dark underbelly of New York she thought she'd escaped-and a web of deceit that threatens to destroy her.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Loved It! October 10, 2008
I thought this was a fantastic book. I could not put it down. I love Gran's writing style and I had no idea what was going to happen next. I am looking forward to reading other writings by Sara Gran.
Hardboiled with a feminine touch May 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sara Gran has the style of classic hardboiled fiction down perfect, hitting all the right notes from start to finish. What really sets her apart though, from the Hammetts and the Chandlers, is the woman's perspective. Her story of Josephine Hannigan, a former junkie turned amateur detective in 1950s New York, employs most of the standard tropes of these kinds of plots, but she takes more care to show us the ladies on the outer edges of the story that usually take a backseat to the macho gunsalls and dirty crime bosses. There is an added sadness to her tale--given the roles these women often play, their existence is a rough one, and not one where they can play at being the tough guy--but in its way, that just adds to the strength of Josephine's character. A real page-turner, you'll read it in no time flat.
I loved this book February 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read about 10 books a month & have honestly forgotten nearly all of them. Including Dostoevsky. But this book I loved.
I loved the blunt way it was written. I loved Ms. Gran's way with dialogue. I generally do not read fiction but I read this & I'm glad I did.
I've actually read it three times now & never tire of it.
Crime Beat Street Blogger review November 30, 2007
Dope by Sara Gran plays out like a classic noir B-movie from the 50's, all about heroin peddlers and girls gone wrong. Its B-movie status stems from the subject matter and certainly not its depth or fascinating storyline. Dope centers on Josephine, a former junkie and lifelong hustler on the hunt for a missing college girl turned addict. The missing girl's parents were referred to Joe by a con artist who said the best way to find their daughter was to hire someone familiar with the drug scene. Desperate for cash Joe easily agrees to find the girl and the creep boyfriend she was last seen with, thus beginning this story of multiple deceptions and plot twists. Unfortunately for Joe, giving up junk was just the beginning of a nightmare, throughout this book she is confronted by all the reasons and people she turned to drugs for, and ultimately staying clean doesn't reap any rewards for her.
The setting and storyline of this book are a nice departure from standard murder plot lines; you don't read too many relatively serious novels about what it was like to be an addict, and an independent female at that, living in New York City circa 1950. Ms. Gran's descriptions of the places and people that inhabit this underworld are gritty and realistic; with the 50s being prime time for Leave It To Beaver glimpses of this side of the times stand in stark contrast to the collective memory of that decade. Still Dope keeps a tongue-in-cheek self-consciousness about itself, like the author knows it needs to be hard-boiled and sassy and shouldn't be taken in complete seriousness, kind of like James Ellroy dialogue. And for the reader, Dope keeps you guessing until the very end, and in general is everything but predictable.
I'm happy to find out about the growing number of female noir and crime fiction authors out there; I'm sure Sara Gran will certainly be at the forefront of this group in the future.
You'd never guess. September 27, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sara Gran really knows how to keep the suspense going. Just when you think you have it down, she flips it over on you. I read it twice in the period of two days just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
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