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About the Author
George Pelecanos is the author of several highly praised and bestselling novels, including The Cut, What It Was, The Way Home, The Turnaround, and The Night Gardener. He is also an independent-film producer, an essayist, and the recipient of numerous international writing awards. He was a producer and Emmy-nominated writer for The Wire and currently writes for the acclaimed HBO series Treme. He lives in Maryland.
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PRAISE FOR THE NIGHT GARDENER:
"Like Drama City it is heart-in-your-throat gripping from beginning to end, The Night Gardener is another of Mr. Pelecanos's beautifully delineated moral tales, filled with gut-wrenching turns of fate and razor-sharp, boisterously vivid characters." (New York Times Janet Maslin)
"The Night Gardener can be read as a police procedural hipper but just as good as those of the late, great Ed McBain. But it is also a wise, textured examination of life in urban America, as sophisticated as the best work of Richard Price....[Pelecanos's] last book, Drama City, is a masterpiece of American crime fiction; The Night Gardener is even better." (Associated Press)
"Mr. Pelecanos...is part of a fraternity of writers, including Dennis Lehane and Richard Price, who push the boundaries of crime writing into literary territory, exploring character more deeply than many crime novelists dare, introducing challenging social themes and bucking expectations that everything will come out all right in the end." (New York Times Motoko Rich)
"Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." (Entertainment Weekly Stephen King)
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Work of Atget: Modern Times v. 4
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Volume IV of this carefully curated series on the art of photography, featuring the work of the pioneering, French photographer, Eugène Atget. (Bembo monotype, half-tone negatives by Richard Benson, binding by Sendor Bindery and printed in three-impression lithography to 'ensure maximum possible fidelity of reproduction'). In addition to the photography there is an essay with notes by John Szarkowski. Maroon cloth boards with blind-stamped title (The Work of Atget) on the front. The spine features the fuller title in bold gilt lettering. Rear board displays a little scratching/marking. Internally, the pages are mildly tanned throughout (mainly at the margins) with some minor rippling on the preliminary pages. pp. 182. 4to. Please note that because of the weight &/or dimensions of this book, and depending on destination, we may request an additional payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Abe2203. Seller Inventory # ABE-1642425992372
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The Work of Atget: Volume IV Modern Times
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ISBN 10: 0860920828
ISBN 13: 9780860920823
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket shows some scuffing, rubbing and wear as well as some edge wear. Back cover of dust jacket shows some light surface scratching. "PRODUCTION COPY" is stamped faintly on cover page. Seller Inventory # mon0000012488