Pick-Up
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679732532 (0679732535)
Publish date: October 3rd 1990
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 166
Edition language: English
Man, that was depressing! A bleak and nihilistic look at a destructive relationship and the negative effects of alcoholism. I imagine that if David Goodis and Jim Thompson teamed up to write the screenplay for the movie Days of Wine and Roses, they would've churned out this novel!Failed painter and ...
Pick-Up by Charles Willeford, told in the first-person tells the story of a painter who has lost faith in his abilities and is working at odd jobs in San Francisco. He picks up a girl at a bar where he is working, falls in love with her, and is drawn into her web of despair. Soon they have agreed t...
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