9780553591705
Odd Hours (Odd Thomas Series #4) share button
Dean Koontz
Format Mass Market Paperback
Dimensions 7.50 (w) x 4.26 (h) x 1.03 (d)
Pages 416
Publisher Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date April 2009
ISBN 9780553591705
Book ISBN 10 0553591703
About Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero, who has come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems.
Reviews

From the Publisher

“Koontz’s most likable creation.”—The New York Times
 
“Koontz forges the kind of sweeping melodrama complete with screwball laughs, nail-biting moments, and surprises that is the bedrock of American narrative fiction.”—Booklist
 
“One of the most remarkable and appealing characters in current fiction . . . a page-turning account . . . beautifully written . . . another literary home run.”—The Virginian-Pilot
 
“Takes off at breakneck speed . . . a superb story from one of our contemporary masters.”—San Antonio Express-News

Publishers Weekly

David Aaron Baker gives a guileless, everyman sheen to Koontz's unusual protagonist-a fry cook named Odd capable of contacting the dead, both famed (Frank Sinatra) and otherwise. Baker alternates between Odd's aw-shucks dialogue and a more dramatically nuanced narrator's voice. The result is a solid, if not overwhelmingly memorable, rendering of the latest in Koontz's ever-growing oeuvre. The audio's director, Lisa Cahn, does an excellent job keeping the production's pace at a steady gallop. A Bantam hardcover (Reviews, Apr.21).
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