The Black Marble Book

The police station running gags are too running to be real the black comic touches like a pet funeral prove again that wambaugh ain t waugh and andrushka and natasha deserve better than a pure musical comedy ending.

The black marble book.

The book is a bit difficult at first as mr wambaugh devotes a different chapter to each character and whilst they are funny and have some acute things to say about human nature it is hard to see. Natalie zimmerman harry dean stanton as philo skinner barbara babcock as madeline whitfield john hancock as clarence cromwell raleigh bond as capt. Table of contents 1. The batushka 2.

La buena vida 3. The characters are so deep and true the humour is totally human the situations are tense desperate and awful but that sick sense of humour of wambaugh s works so well. The black marble 1978 is i think joseph wambaugh s triumph. Flag 1 like like see review.

Valnikov paula prentiss as sgt. This is only the second book i have read by this author as i always assumed his books would be quite gory not sure where i got that idea from but in actual fact they are laugh out loud funny. The black marble pool gives a glimpse into the lives of the characters who lived the book was originally published in 1990 but has just been republished by requeered tales. The black marble summary study guide the black marble summary joseph wambaugh is primarily concerned with the emotional cost of being a policeman but he widens his focus in this novel to include the loneliness of a socially well connected but discarded wife and the world of championship show dogs.

The black marble pool is a murder mystery but it didn t really work for me in this context. The dog love 12. The fiddler 11. The big sewer 6.

The black marble that s what losers like val and philo always wind up with should hive been better than it is. Hipless hooker judy landers as pattie mae pat corley as itchy mitch paul henry itkin as. The terrier king 4. The black marble 10.

The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. Suicide bridge 14. The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. The cathedral 9.

The tragic muse 8. It is a near perfect crime novel. The black marble spends most of the book developing character and less time on the caper. Charlie lightfoot 13.