Cockfighter
The sport is cockfighting, and Frank Mansfield is the Cockfightera silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of the Hoke Mosely detective novels yields a floodlit vision...
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The sport is cockfighting, and Frank Mansfield is the Cockfightera silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of the Hoke Mosely detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural South.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781596542228 (1596542225)
Publish date: June 1st 2005
Publisher: Blackmask.com
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
I have absolutely no idea how this book and its movie came back to the surface of my mind. I watched the film in 1975, I think, and I'm sure it was with Paul the film student. (He was also a drunk, and to date the only lover I've ever had that I allowed to hit me.) Come to think on it, he's also t...