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Southern california home builder extraordinaire randy chalmers has to admit hed be dead or in prison were it not for his best friend, lawyer, and alcoholics anonymous sponsor, terry elias. His father, a contractor, had done work on the actors home. This book is a crazy mix of style and content its a very satisfying mystery of sorts but its got this underlayer of almost religious intensity to it there will be wonderfully observed detail a guy who pitches his case to your girlfriend. A 12stepping excop goes on a grand tour of seedy southern california to investigate his sponsors shocking overdose. Jennifer egan, pulitzer prizewinning author of a visit from the goon squad dan bardens the next right thing is the long goodbye in rehab. But the novel has some solid anchors in terry, whom randy fondly. To ask other readers questions about the next right thing, please sign up. Its fierce and funny and absolutely worthy of its predecessors like them, bardens hardboiled tale is really an inquiry into male love and grief, and the state of the american heart.

But i worry that readers of the next right thing who expect a conventional mystery suspense novel will be disappointed. Jan 05, 2012 dan barden is the author of the next right thing, a kind of fresh spin on something like a west coast mystery or suspense novel, coming in march from dial press. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The latter is a crime mystery set inside a recovery story, told by a hardboiled. Barden weaves together a series of incidents in his fictionalized family life including waynes attempts to help the family negotiate their misfortunes with. When we fell in love dan barden three guys one book.

Tnrt isnt really genre fiction but uses elements of classic suspense and mystery narrative, like an updated raymond chandler, to tell the story of an engaging cast of hipster characters drenched in californias cool coastal light. Thanks to terrys coaching and an endless stream of alcoholics anonymous meetings, randys been off the booze for eight years, has a successful new career, and is thriving in a healthy relationship. Where did you start this novel with a character, a scene, a plot line. A novel doubleday, 1997 and the next right thing dial press, 2012.

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Aug 15, 2006 dan bardens the next right thing is the long goodbye in rehab. Randy, the hero of barden s busy but engaging debut, has a lot of the trappings of a noir hero in the chandler and hammett vein. Author dan barden takes the clay of the california hardboiled novel and shapes it into. The next right thing dan barden 9780385343404 netgalley.

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A former police officer, randy narrowly escaped being. This is bardens second novel, following 1997s john wayne, and he gives his readers a complex protagonist in randy chalmers, former cop and alcoholic turned home. Jennifer egan, pulitzer prizewinning author of a visit from the goon squad dan barden s the next right thing is the long goodbye in. The next right thing, by dan barden washington post. All is welluntil terry is found dead of a heroin overdose. An unsettling and uneven blend of fact and fiction in a first novel about one familys involvement with john wayne.

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