The Silver Hearted
The horror, the horror! With The Silver Hearted, New York-based novelist David McConnell has crafted a novel that Edmund White hails as “our Heart of Darkness. It’s just as ominous, as violent, as exotic, as darkly colonial.” That’s no small praise, and it’s justly deserved.
Set against a background of revolution and profiteering in an unnamed port town, the story’s narrator is hired to protect a vast sum of riches that shadowy investors have entrusted to him. Now, watching over treasure chests that are literally bursting with silver coins, this vast fortune must be protected against all odds.
He turns for assistance to a naïve and eager sailor, who’s as handsome as he is inexperienced in the ways of the world, and who helps the narrator evacuate the trundle of riches from a trading emporium bustling with violent mobs. With a hopeless idealism, the young sailor wants it acknowledged that lives have been destroyed for the sake of the treasures. Unfortunately, the ruthless allure of unfathomable fortune is too much for our narrator to shake… and the mobs are closing in.
Darkly erotic, eloquent, and seductively cryptic, The Silver Hearted is an unforgettable read.
Hardcover : 224 pages
Publisher: Alyson Books ( February 01, 2010 )
Item #: 12-822525
ISBN: 9781616640446
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.5inches
Product Weight: 11.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Very poor 
October 01, 2010
I wish I had not bought this book. I kept ready hoping it get into it. I never did.
Reviewer: Cliff
Don't waist your time!
September 09, 2010
I waited several months for this book because it was on constant backorder. What a disappointment! How could anyone even compare this trash to Joseph Conrad's masterpiece? Enough said!
Reviewer: Bill
A Disappointing Read
May 31, 2010
I really did not care for this novel all that much. I believe that it comes down to that it just was not the novel I thought it was going to be. I found it difficult to get into from the beginning. I kept asking myself, ?What?!? Perhaps the author?s style of writing was something of a turn off for me. It felt like I was trying too hard to stay or keep up with David McConnell. Finally, some small relief came at chapter four. However, by the end of the fast read novel, I felt that I should re-read the first three chapters again to fully understand the why of the actions of the twenty-dollar sailor. I don?t believe that I will read another of David McConnell?s books again. I also don?t have any desire to keep this book on my shelf for a future read. I got through it, which I promised myself, and that is all I can justly do for it.
The narrator is hired by a questionable casino owner to transport boxes of silver coins amounting to $200,000 US dollars. As if it isn?t hard enough to be caught with this many curious boxes, he must do this in the political revolution of a very poor port city. With the aid of his twenty-dollar sailor, the narrator is able to get the treasure out of the fighting in Z. Can he get the boxes to his employer when the police, the young twenty-dollar sailor, and other questionable men are looking for him and the missing gold, not silver?
Reviewer: Jimmy W
Ditto!
April 16, 2010
Ordered my copy in January! Still waiting! I'm not happy!
Reviewer: Bill
Don't bother ordering
March 15, 2010
I ordered this book in early January and it's been out of stock the whole time. So if you order this book just realize it might be months before you actually see it. It's 2 months and counting for me.
It's hard to believe this book is one of the top 10 sellers when no copies of the book have been shipped out in 2 months.
Reviewer: Ut R
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