Shank [Import] [Paperback]

Roderick Anscombe (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Limited (1996)
• ISBN-10: 0747531498
• ISBN-13: 978-0747531494
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant., June 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Shank (Paperback)

This book is brilliant because the main character Dan Cody is incredibly deep and complex. You think you understand him - his story is at first a little hard to swallow, but eventually you believe him. Then slowly you are brought to question his sanity. Very subtly, you are shown so many sides and angles to him, that youre not sure which is real.

Previous reader with negative review must have a brain the size of a pea.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good reason why you shouldn't want to go to jail., April 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Shank (Paperback)

After having doing some work inside a prision, I found this but to portray life for the inmates in a realistic way.

Read this book; it'll shock you and disturb you, but it will make you think!

3.0 out of 5 stars Can You See The Real Me?, November 15, 2010

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valis1949 "valis1949" (Springfield, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shank (Paperback)

Dan Cody is doing life without the possibility of parole for the murder of his wife. He claims that she was HIV Positive, and he was saving her from future misery, however, we only have his word on the matter. This novel is told in the first person by Mr. Cody, and he proves to be a truly 'Unreliable Narrator', in that the reader can never fully ascertain whether one is listening to a psychopath, or someone who has been wronged by fate. He claims that he is now in a mutual love affair with the prison nurse, Carol, and she has orchestrated an escape so that they can start a new life. And, they only need to get at a stash of several hundred thousand dollars which Dan may or may not be able to recover. A crazy plot, but the book is absorbing to the bitter end. This type of a story is better manifested in Jim Thompson's POP 1280, or Mark Hudson's THE MUSIC IN MY HEAD. A self-deluding, or pathological liar who tells the tale always makes for a disorienting and engrossing read.