Falling Angel - Softcover

Hjortsberg, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446314323 ISBN 13: 9780446314329

Publisher: Warner Books, 1986

Synopsis

New York private eye Harry Angel takes on a routine missing persons case and finds himself in a nightmare of voodoo, black magic, and violent death

About this title

Book Description:

An Edgar Award–nominated classic, Falling Angel follows the hunt for a vanished singer that leads a detective into the depths of the occult. This hard-boiled detective novel was adapted for the screen as Angel Heart, starring Robert De Niro, in 1987.

About the Author:

William Hjortsberg (1941–2017) was an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg’s first success came with Alp (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg’s friend Thomas McGuane called, “quite possibly the finest comic novel written in America.” In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1973), as well as Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is Falling Angel (1978), a hard-boiled occult mystery. In 1987 the book was adapted into a film titled Angel Heart, which starred Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke. Hjortsberg’s work also includes Jubilee Hitchhiker (2012), a biography of Richard Brautigan, American writer and voice of 1960s counterculture.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0446314323
• ISBN 13: 9780446314329
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243