Diablerie: A Novel

by Walter Mosley Narrated by Richard Allen

Overview

In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we keep hidden from ourselves.



Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together-years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig at a magazine called Diablerie and makes it clear that she remembers something he doesn't. Their encounter sets wheels in motion that will propel Dibbuk toward new knowledge and perhaps the chance to feel again. With the same erotic force as Killing Johnny Fry but grounded in a far darker vision of human nature, Diablerie is a transfixing new novel from one of our most powerful writers.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The talented and uncompromising Walter Mosley has earned the right to write whatever he pleases.” —Washington Post

“Diablerie…shows a writer still interested in pushing his considerable talents, unbound by genre or commercial expectations.” —Boston Globe

“Mosley's latest focuses on big issues—identity, race, class, love, sex, guilt, alcoholism—with a composed, terrifying clarity. A–” —Entertainment Weekly

“This bitter little book's near blanket indictment of human nature is sure to delight the misanthropes on your holiday shopping list.” —Washington Post

“This is Mosley at his deepest and best, scratching away the faces we wear to reveal the person behind the masks.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Provocative, haunting, satisfyingly inconclusive work from a storyteller of formidable gifts and boundless ambition.” —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170108251
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	03/03/2008
Edition description:	Unabridged

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