Dirty Work
"A novel of the first order...gripping and virtually seamless....The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion."--Washington Post Book World"One sure way to deromanticize tomcat is to show its long-term effects. That's...
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"A novel of the first order...gripping and virtually seamless....The writing, the characters, and the plot are so compelling that you can't help but stay with the book until its conclusion."--Washington Post Book World"One sure way to deromanticize tomcat is to show its long-term effects. That's what Larry Brown does in this fine...first novel."--Newsweek"Brown probes the hard luck of the down and out, the grim realities at the bottom of the scrap....His prose has a dark, horrific urgency. ...a real knockout."--Newsday
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780945575207 (0945575203)
Publish date: January 8th 1989
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages no: 247
Edition language: English
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In the 70s, Bloch continued to be a prolific short fiction writer as well as being active in novels and screenplays. Yet his fiction started to hit a snag. Much of his later pieces are set up for the punch line. In short they are little jokes with no discernible plot development. A nannoying example...
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