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The Informer ultimately fails due to the weight it fails to convey, the tension it ultimately cannot produce. Beautiful passages are wasted by unnatural characters; multifaceted motivation and political ambiguity are possessed not by humans, but by the shades of their actions, dooming this novel to the cardboard-depth of these characters.
About The Informers. From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a “brilliant new novel” (New York Times Book Review) and one of the most buzzed about books of the year! “One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.” — Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Informers (2008) Plot. Showing all 2 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Summaries. One week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence. —Movie.
The murder of a Scotland Yard informer starts a trail of deceit and intrigue among London's underworld, prompting a police inspector to conduct his own unorthodox investigation.
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney.He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style.
THE INFORMERS (2004), his earliest novel, is concerned with Colombia during the Second World War, and especially its attitude towards its German immigrant population. All three books, however, tell their stories from a later perspective, so they represent a process of uncovering rather than simple telling.
The ever-urbane and debonnaire Nigel Patrick was few people's idea of a British Charles Bronson, but he had a damn good try at it in The Informers, on the surface an identikit crime flick from the period where such things were feeling the pinch from television. What Dixon of Dock Green and its ilk could not supply was violence, so it was evidently the main purpose of bringing this tale (based.