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He Died with His Eyes Open
de RAYMOND DEREK
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Secker, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Pages tanned due to the poor quality of paper used otherwise a near fine copy in like publisher's price-clipped and re-priced (at £8.95) D/W. The first novel in Derek Raymond's Factory detective crime series. Described as "a crackerjack of a crime novel, unafraid to face the reality of man's and woman's evil?" (The Evening Standard) and "a mixture of thin-lipped Chandleresque backchat and of idioms more icily subversive". (The Observer).
Sinopsis
Derek Raymond was the pseudonym of British writer Robert Cook, who was born in London in 1931. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton and rejected a life of privilege for a life of adventure. He traveled the world, living in Paris at the Beat Hotel and on New York’s seedy Lower East Side, smuggled artworks into Amsterdam, and spent time in a Spanish prison for publicly making fun of Franco. Finally, he landed back in London, working in the lower echelons of the Kray Brothers’ crime syndicate laundering money, organizing illegal gambling, and setting up insurance scams. He eventually took to writing—first as a pornographer, but then as an increasingly serious novelist, writing about the desperate characters and experiences he’d known in London’s underground. His work culminated in the Factory novels, landmarks that have led many to consider him the founding father of British noir. He died in London in 1993.
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- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 355490716066
- Título
- He Died with His Eyes Open
- Autor
- RAYMOND DEREK
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Dust Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Secker
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1984
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Sobre el vendedor
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Leicester
Sobre James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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