The Serialist, David Gordon
The Serialist, David Gordon
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The Serialist

Author: David Gordon

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/09/2010

Synopsis

In this stylish, darkly funny psychological thriller, a struggling writer finds his life suddenly resembling one of his own pulp novels when a convicted serial killer hires him to write his memoir.All Harry Bloch knows about catching a serial killer is what he has learned from his own books. But Harry’s life takes a sudden dramatic turn when the Photo Killer, a high-profile murderer who claims to be innocent, asks Harry to write his memoir. No sooner has Harry begun his research than several women are murdered in the Photo Killer’s signature style, just hours after Harry interviewed them. Now Harry is a prime suspect—or is he the killer’s next target? Forced to play detective in a real-life murder mystery plot, Harry begins to seek the real killer and turns up more than he could have imagined.

About David Gordon

David Gordon is the author of the novels Mystery Girl, now a major motion picture in Japan, and The Serialist, which won the VCU Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Columbia MFA program and also holds a master’s in English and comparative literature from Columbia. He has worked as a screenwriter and a magazine editor.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on March 25, 2012

The Serialist is one of the most unusual and entertaining books that I've read in a long time. The protagonist and narrator is Harry Bloch, an aspiring writer who barely eeks out a living by grinding out pulp novels in a variety of genres under various pseudonyms. One of his most successful is a vam......more

Goodreads review by Eric on June 13, 2014

This article, about author David Gordon being famous in Japan and not even realizing it, made me curious enough to read the book that made him an accidental, foreign celebrity. The book starts with a really great, memorable opening, including this line -- which isn't the first line of the book, but t......more

Goodreads review by Trish on August 04, 2015

Here’s something I haven’t done before: read two books by the same author one after another. I’d never heard of David Gordon until I came across a very funny essay by him in the NY Times magazine one Sunday this January. In the essay he explains that his debut novel, The Serialist, was mostly ignore......more

Goodreads review by Mizuki on February 21, 2014

Great sense of humor, a lot of in-joke about the publishing industry and authors of pulp fictions, cleverly written twists and an decent ending. I like the characters as well. Although the ending is a bit on the "That's it? It's fine, but..." side, still I know I will keep my fingers crossed for the......more

Goodreads review by QHuong(BookSpy) on November 02, 2023

4.75 Tựa Việt: Kẻ viết truyện dài kỳ Đọc cuốn này làm mình liên tưởng đến cuốn Everyone in my family has killed someone. Từ cách hành văn đến giọng văn dí dỏm, nhân vật chính cũng là một nhà văn có phần thất bại, đến cốt truyện mang tính hơi phiêu lưu nhưng đượm đầy chất trinh thám. Anh chàng Harry Bl......more

Quotes

“This noir sendup turns out to be a real killer debut…The book is funny, with a satirical edge, and unlike some literary authors who play with genre, Gordon knows how to write a potboiler.” Los Angeles Times

“David Gordon has gathered up our cultural trash and made of it something magnificentThe Serialist makes high art out of serial murders, pornography, soup dumplings, and pulp fiction. I adore this book!” Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances

“Winning…A darkly humorous thriller.” Publishers Weekly

“Pinchot’s storytelling ably transitions from the narrative voice of the self-deprecating Jewish author to that of the truly evil man in prison. Other characters [are also] well portrayed…Pinchot negotiates all these elements with alacrity and humor.” AudioFile

“A tour de force debut.”  Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Edgar Allan Poe Award
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