Duane Swierczynski has done it again with this mind-blowing homage to Philadelphia! Not since David Goodis, has Philadelphia been so alive, both in the past and in the past!
You do not want to miss this time-bending tale that only Swierczynski could weave!
Mickey Wade, an unemployed journalist, moves into his grandfather’s apartment in the family’s old Philadelphia neighborhood and, after gobbling a few aspirin to fight a hangover, finds himself beamed back to the day of his birth in 1972. Turns out those weren’t your garden-variety aspirin but, rather, the pills a crackpot scientist had created as part of a government-funded plan to investigate out-of-body travel. Only, in Mickey’s case, he can only go back to the early 1970s. But there’s plenty to do there: if he can somehow divert the young boy who will eventually murder Mickey’s father, he can change his family’s history. Swierczynski cleverly melds the thriller and fantasy elements (especially the notion of nonlinear time), producing a thoroughly readable, suspenseful romp that evokes John D. MacDonald’s pulp classic The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything. --Bill Ott
Come here him read from his latest work :
PORT RICHMOND BOOKS
3037 Richmond Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134
April 11, 2010
2:00 PM
Swierczynski (Severance Package, 2007) originally planned to write this beguiling, pulp-style mix of fantasy and mystery as a magazine serial, but when the New York Times Magazine bowed out of the fiction business, he turned it into a stand-alone novel.
Review
"Duane Swierczynski continues to carve out his own unique literary presence in a fascinating fusion of mystery, suspense, and sophisticated dark fantasy fiction. Expiration Date is a skillful, fast-paced, rock'em, jolt'em, spook'em, leave-em-laughin' story with believable characters and a pedal to the floor narrative drive. Top of the line entertainment."--Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season
“Duane Swierczynski is one of the best thriller writers in America, and probably my favorite. I blazed through Expiration Date in one sitting and I loved it.” -- James Frey, New York Timesbestselling author of Bright Shiny Morning and A Million Little Pieces
“Duane Swierczynski is one of the best thriller writers in America, and probably my favorite. I blazed through Expiration Date in one sitting and I loved it.” -- James Frey, New York Timesbestselling author of Bright Shiny Morning and A Million Little Pieces
I've been on a Swierczynski bender all weekend, and have my local book shop alerted to have this ready for me on the big day. Can't wait! Hope to make it out to NoirCon as well.
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