Charles Willeford was a child of the Depression era, one of thousands who drifted across the Dust Bowl of America riding the freight trains. That experience, combined with twenty years spent in and out of the armed forces, and the most colourful of lives afterwards, fuelled his deeply authentic hard-boiled prose. High Priest of California is his first novel, and, like Pick-Up and Wild Wives, it is not pulp fiction, but almost satirises that genre. The humour is raunchy and bad-tempered, but the writing is never pretentious. ...
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Charles Willeford was a child of the Depression era, one of thousands who drifted across the Dust Bowl of America riding the freight trains. That experience, combined with twenty years spent in and out of the armed forces, and the most colourful of lives afterwards, fuelled his deeply authentic hard-boiled prose. High Priest of California is his first novel, and, like Pick-Up and Wild Wives, it is not pulp fiction, but almost satirises that genre. The humour is raunchy and bad-tempered, but the writing is never pretentious. The stories are not lurid; rather, skilfully crafted tales of men and women responding to their individual circumstances, at times purely for their own gain, at others driven by sheer force of hardship.
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published:
2015
Language:
English
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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2015
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Very Good- 1409160602. Binding well intact. Spine uncreased. Pages unmarked. Cover bright and clean, with only minor signs of general shelf-wear. Support an independent used bookstore in Minneapolis.; 136 X 32 X 199 millimeters; 472 pages.
Publisher:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published:
2015
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
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No highlighting markings or writing. Pages and cover clean and intact. Used book in very good conditions. Minor cosmetic defects may be present. May include library marks.
