Joseph Kanon
Author of The Good German
About the Author
Joseph Kanon began his career in publishing while an undergraduate at Harvard, reading manuscripts for The Atlantic Monthly. Kanon traveled to England for graduate school, then returned to the United States to work as a book review editor and writer for the Saturday Review. Rising through the ranks show more of the publishing world, he eventually became president and CEO of E.P. Dutton, and then executive vice president of Houghton Mifflin's Trade and Reference Division. Kanon is the author of Los Alamos (1997), an authentic fictional recreation of the waning days of World War II during which the murder of one of the Manhattan Project's security officers occurs. The Prodigal Spy was published in late 1998. His novel, Leaving Berlin, is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Joseph Kanon
The Defectors 1 copy
Associated Works
Oppenheimer and The Manhattan Project: Insights Into J Robert Oppenheimer, "Father Of The Atomic Bomb" (Manhattan… (2005) — Contributor — 8 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1946
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Pennsylvania, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Harvard University
University of Cambridge (Trinity College) - Occupations
- publisher
writer
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The Accomplice: A Novel by Joseph Kanon
A mix of mundane and interesting. Hated how he wrote the *one* woman character. Idea of justice was good. Protagonist occasionally had depth.
The NYT reviewer was speaking of me when he wrote "Some readers may find that Kanon’s thriller-ish style takes some getting used to, especially his telegrammatic dialogue reduced. To such. Staccato bursts that. It risks becoming. Unintelligible." However, I did like this story; it was fast paced and a quick read even though a bit confusing as I tried to figure out who worked for whom...but I guess that's par for the course with suspense fiction.
Entertaining and philosophical, paints a picture of what it might have been like then but the mystery part of it was a little disappointing. Leads seemed to come out of nowhere by chance rather than cleverly leading from one to the next.
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- Rating
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