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The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalculation. He’s low on bullets—but, as anyone who’s crossed his path knows, that definitely doesn’t mean he’s defenseless.
“Nobody tops Stark in his objective portrayals of a world of total amorality.” —New York Times
“Energy and imagination light up virtually every page, as does some of the best hard-boiled prose ever to grace the noir genre.” —Publishers Weekly
- Sales Rank: #343956 in Books
- Published on: 2010-09-01
- Released on: 2010-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .60" w x 5.25" l, .52 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Review
"A dimestore shiv of a book about what happens when corrupt cops tip off the mob about a car accident in which an incompetent wheelman flips a getaway car next to an amusement park called Fun Island. (Hint: Master thief/antihero extraordinaire Parker survives; a lot of other people die." (Seth Mnookin The Millions)
“Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.”
(Stephen King Entertainment Weekly)
“Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.”
(William Grimes New York Times)
“Richard Stark’s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.”
(John Banville Bookforum)
“Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark.”
(Marilyn Stasio New York Times Book Review)
“Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.”
(Washington Post)
“Elmore Leonard wouldn’t write what he does if Stark hadn’t been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t write what he does without Leonard. . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.”
(Los Angeles Times)
“Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”
(Elmore Leonard)
“Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.”
(Lawrence Block)
“Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity—a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.”
(Anthony Boucher New York Times Book Review)
"Parker is a brilliant invention. . . . What chiefly distinguishes Westlake, under whatever name, is his passion for process and mechanics. . . . Parker appears to have eliminated everything from his program but machine logic, but this is merely protective coloration. He is a romantic vestige, a free-market anarchist whose independent status is becoming a thing of the past."
(Luc Sante New York Review of Books)
"I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written."
(Terry Teachout Commentary)
"If you're a fan of noir novels and haven't yet read Richard Stark, you may want to give these books a try. Who knows? Parker may just be the son of a bitch you've been searching for."
(John McNally Virginia Quarterly Review)
"The University of Chicago Press has recently undertaken a campaign to get Parker back in print in affordable and handsome editions, and I dove in. And now I get it."
(Josef Braun Vue Weekly)
"Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments."
(Terry Teachout Weekly Standard)
“The UC Press mission, to reprint the 1960s Parker novels of Richard Stark (the late Donald Westlake), is wholly admirable. The books have been out of print for decades, and the fast-paced, hard-boiled thrillers featuring the thief Parker are brilliant.” (H. J. Kirchoff Globe and Mail)
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About the Author
Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993, the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Slayground Playground
By sweetmolly
This one is Super-Parker. I am in awe of Stark's (Donald Westlake) skills at placing the entire action in a closed-for-the-season amusement park with only one exit. Parker is trapped not only by crooked cops, but the bad guys as well. What a kaleidoscope of rides, color and strange machinery! Yet it is all aslant. Rather than crowds and summertime weather, it is empty, cold and bleak.
The tension never lets up. Will the bad guys find Parker's stash? Will they corner him? Can he pull another trick out of his bag? Will the scaffolding hold?
I am always baffled when people complain of lack of characterization in Parker novels. To me, the beauty is being right inside Parker's head when he meticulously plans his heists, revenge, and plans. True, we never read of honor, sensitivity, introspection, and love for the very good reason Parker possesses none of these traits. I always think Parker would be a totally successful CEO of a giant corporation if he had taken up another line of work.
"Slayground" is vintage Parker, hard-boiled, violent and as perfectly crafted as a fine watch.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Home Alone - for grown-ups!
By Sam Quixote
I love the Darwyn Cooke comic book adaptations of the Parker novels but have never read one in the original prose-only format. Slayground jumped out at me as the place to start partly because that's the next one Cooke's adapting and I want to see the difference between the original and the adaptation, but also because of the delicious setup.
Parker is a master thief who, alongside two accomplices, one of them his longtime partner Grofield, knocks over an armored car and makes off with $73k. But things go pear-shaped as the unreliable driver crashes the getaway car. Parker is the only one conscious in the wreck so he grabs the loot and runs for cover - in a nearby amusement park! Except some gangsters and crooked cops are nearby doing a deal and see the suspicious figure of Parker toss a satchel over the fence and jump in after it just as dispatch alerts the cops to a recent and nearby robbery. Trapped inside the amusement park (which is shut for the winter), Parker must lay out traps in order to survive from the cops and gangsters preparing to storm the park, kill him, and take his money. Game on!
It's a great setup, right? Buuuuuuut... I didn't love the book like I thought I would. Westlake is a fine writer - his prose is lean, his dialogue is crisp, and he writes at a decent clip. No wonder Elmore Leonard found him such an inspiration, Leonard's style is clearly influenced by this earlier master crime writer. But nothing really happens in the first half of the book. Sure, we get the burst of action that comes with the initial robbery but once Parker's in the fairground? The cops/gangsters stand around waiting for their group to gather while Parker wanders about discovering his surroundings, making plans, setting traps - all fine, but boy, is it boring to read!
Once the action does start I did notice a difference between Westlake and Cooke immediately - whereas with Cooke, who can convey action quickly and effectively with his art, Westlake must use his words to set the scene, and the description, of which there are paragraphs and paragraphs for a single scene, overwhelms the action, slowing it down immensely to become almost inaction. Couple that with the character of Parker who barely says two words at the best of times, and you've got a near dialogue-silent novel with Westlake's descriptive writing carrying the entire book.
The most disappointing thing about my first Richard Stark Parker novel was that I knew what the story was as soon as I read the synopsis - and after I put the book down I realised Stark/Westlake hadn't surprised me once. The last prose novel I read before this was The Believers by Zoe Heller and if I were to explain the plot of that book - family drama where its discovered the patriarch has a secret second family - and you read it, you would see how reductive and misleading the synopsis actually is. With Slayground, it is exactly what the synopsis says it is, and nothing more. This is the story of a stoic master thief, surrounded by danger, who lays traps in an amusement park to escape from that danger - and that's what you get with the book. Fair enough, The Believers is literary fiction and Slayground is genre fiction, a crime thriller, but I think it's clear that Westlake's prose is good enough to surpass the genre label and be considered literary. In this way he joins fellow crime writers Chandler, Cain, McCoy, Higgins, and Leonard, who've escaped the tags of their pulpy roots to become revered as literary masters in their own right. But while there is a certain charm to the simplicity of a story like this, delivering exactly what it says on the tin, I found it a bit unexciting in its predictability. Although I did like that Parker was vulnerable in this book - the Cooke adaptations have shown him as impossibly flawless in his approach to heists and his encounters with other crooks. Here, he is cowed and weak, albeit temporarily.
Maybe Slayground wasn't the best Parker novel to start with? Although I wasn't put off from reading any more Parker novels in the future, I wasn't impressed enough to reach for another one immediately after.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Taking A Ride Through The Funhouse With Parker
By Dave Wilde
The title "Slayground" is a takeoff from the phrase "Amusement Playground." It is the fourteenth Parker novels, following "Deadly Edge" and preceding "Plunder Squad." "Lemons Never Lie" comes between "Slayground" and "Plunder Squad," but that is really one of the four Grofields, not a Parker. "Slayground" is the flip side to the Grofield novel "Blackbird." Parker, Grofield, and another guy pull off an armored car heist and the car flips over in the getaway process. Grofield ends up in the hospital where he is recruited by the CIA in "Blackbird." Parker, however, gets away and hides inside an amusement park, that is shut down for the winter. In front of the park as Parker makes his entrance, a pair of hoodlums is busy paying off a pair of cops. After hearing a radio report of the armored car heist, a crack team of professional hoods enter the park to hunt down Parker and the $70,000 he is reportedly carrying with him. There is but one entrance and one exit and the hoods can keep calling in reinforcements while Parker has but one gun and a limited number of bullets.
This is quite different than most other Parker novels as it really doesn't center around the planning and execution of a heist. This is more like a horror movie with the serial killer chasing the teens around the funhouse, popping out at the oddest moments and creating general havoc Parker-style. It is a solid, quick read that is about as fun to read as any crime novel ever has been. No, the plot is not all that complicated, but it doesn't need to be with Parker ingeniously improvising as he darts from one amusement park ride to another. How many hoods does it take to take down Parker? Gotta wonder.
Giving this one high marks not on its depth and complexity, but on the absolute amount of fun and enjoyment this was to read.
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