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Bezig met laden... High Priest of California / Wild Wivesdoor Charles Ray Willeford
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A book in three parts: two novellas and a stage adaptation of one of those. The High Priest of California is a used car salesman. In this case he is a violently amoral sexual predator in fine clothing. His relationship with a mysterious woman is the whole of the story, here presented as a novella and as a play. The play is less successful as the novel because the abridgement loses some of the characters' motivations and pitches into the story later than the book as well as leaving it earlier. The characters have depth and Willesford's ear for ironic dialogue is masterly. This story may be marred for contemporary readers by the casual racism that reflects the values of 1950s America. By contrast, the much tighter Wild Wives involves casual homophobia and a less complex protagonist. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This Ace-Double combines two of Willeford's classics of hard-boiled fiction into one volume. 'Hight Priest of California' recounts the story of Russell Haxby, a ruthless used car saleman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. A wry, sardonic tale of lust, hypocrisy and intrigue, it deserves its reputation as one of the ballsiest hard-boiled tales ever written. 'Wild Wives' is equally as amoral, sexy and brutal. A tale of deception featuring the crooked detective Jacob Blake, it's packed with intrigue, deceit and multiple murders. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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![]() GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:![]()
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Ho-lee Mo-lee. Vintage noir at its finest/ grittiest. Wild, tough, and in the best ways, pretty brutal. Its novella length is also perfect. The story was such a ride, lengthening it would have made it worse. Thanks to the lady at the bookshop who recommended Charles Willeford when she saw me buying James Crumley.