Published by Serpent's Tail, 2008
ISBN 10: 1852429712 ISBN 13: 9781852429713
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. There's a new name to add to the pantheon of the sons and daughters of Cain: Dave Zeltserman. His new novel, Small Crimes, is ingeniously twisted and imbued with a glossy coating of black humor The plot of Small Crimes ricochets out from [its] claustrophobic opening, and it's a thing of sordid beauty.- Maureen Corrigan for NPRs Best Books of 2008Unputdownable. Classic noir, dark, funny, shocking and absolutely no compromise. Pure magic of the blackest kind.-Ken BruenA superbly crafted tale. Like the very best of modern noir, this is a story told in shades of grey. This deserves to be massive.-Allan GuthrieZeltserman delves deeply into his specialty, an unorthodox look at the criminal mind. It kept me turning pages and glancing over my shoulder.-Vicki HendricksSet in the pressure cooker of a very small town and following the promise of Dave Zeltersmans earlier novels (Fast Lane and Bad Thoughts), Small Crimes is an explosive noir that brings the claustrophobic hell of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain right up to date.Dave Zeltserman lives in the Boston area with his wife, Judy. He is a die-hard Patriots and Red Sox fan, and when hes not writing crime fiction, he spends his time working on his black belt in Kung Fu.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1996
ISBN 10: 1852424184 ISBN 13: 9781852424183
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st. A novel written in cyberspace, Nearly Roadkill is an Infobahn erotic thriller without any boundaries - virtual, sexual, legal, or otherwise. What-appears-to-be Boy meets what-appears-to-be Girl. But their world is the Net, where any persona - and any gender - can be created. They pose as a host of different personalities, switching identities and genders as quickly as they create passwords. Named Scratch and Winc, these two genderless beings cybersurf into the various worlds on the Net as they fight government intervention on this final frontier.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 1989
ISBN 10: 1852421517 ISBN 13: 9781852421519
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Main. The lives of second-generation Algerians in a Paris housing project, the basis of the award-winning film."Writing that is both dazzling and economical and a moral and aesthetic elegance that does not judge. The greatest attribute of this extraordinary first novel is its thirst for life."--Le Quotidien de Paris.
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Published by Serpent's Tail, 2001
ISBN 10: 1852426470 ISBN 13: 9781852426477
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. A novel set in the backstreets of Medellin, Colombia, captures the lives of the beggars, thieves, drug addicts, and other lost souls of a city overwhelmed by the drug trade.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 2008
ISBN 10: 1852429666 ISBN 13: 9781852429669
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition first printing. Paris Noir is a collection of new stories about the dark side of Paris, with contributions by leading French, British, and American authors who have all lived there. The stories range from quietly menacing to spectacularly violent, and include contributions from some of the most famous crime writers from both sides of the Atlantic.Contributors include: Cara Black, Jerome Charyn, Stella Duffy, Barry Gifford, Sparkle Hayter, John Harvey, Maxim Jakubowski, Jake Lamar, Dominique Manotti, Michael Moorcock, Jim Nisbet, Jean-Hughes Oppel, Scott Phillips, Romain Slocombe, Jason Starr, Dominique Sylvain, Marc Villard, and John Williams.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 2024
ISBN 10: 1852427531 ISBN 13: 9781852427535
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. "One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the 80s. Butlins book is a stylistic triumph."Irvine Welsh"One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the 80s . . . Butlins book is a stylistic triumph."Irvine WelshMorris Magellan has a house in the suburbs, nice wife and kids. But Morris is also a chronic alcoholic, heading fast towards self-destruction. Morris is not hoping to meet Ms. Right and acquire the two kids that will straighten everything out. He already has all this and it hasnt kept him off the bottle. Ron Butlins tale of one mans inner turmoil is haunting, harrowing, yet strangely uplifting; a masterpiece from a neglected Scottish writer.
Published by Serpent"s Tail, 1992
ISBN 10: 1852422009 ISBN 13: 9781852422004
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. 1688115452. 6/30/2023 8:57:32 AM.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1999
ISBN 10: 1852424532 ISBN 13: 9781852424534
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Written in the epic style of Homer, Honk If You Love Aphrodite is a modern-day tale of one man's odyssey across New York City to the woman he adores. Aphrodite, goddess of love, sends her son to deliver this mortal Stanley Short-Sleeves from many perils; the treacherous subway and underworld below it; a bewitching Voodoo dancer; a drug dealer whose turf Stanley trangresses; and strange women unaccountably besotted with him. However, the greatest obstacle is not the colorful mortals Stanley encounters, or even the gods of the modern world, but rather Stanley's own divided heart. Does he truly want to return to the woman, as he claims? It is the duty of the son of Aphrodite to find out before the dawn. This swift, hilarious adventure sweeps the reader through the city, and ultimately through the many faces of love in our time.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1994
ISBN 10: 1852422726 ISBN 13: 9781852422721
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Main. In this scintillating collection of stories Puerto Rican writer Ana Lydia Vega exposes machismo, Caribbean style. With deft pastiches of genre fiction - the thriller, the historical romance, the bodice ripper - she turns the traditions of Latin American fiction on their heads and produces a work that critically reflects the influence of US culture. Though her stories appear in many anthologies, this is the first collection of Ana Lydia Vega's work to be published in English. It showcases one of the provocative 'post-feminist' voices of the continent.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 2005
ISBN 10: 1852428139 ISBN 13: 9781852428136
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Main. "A wonderful mix of magical realism and wordplay that has a similar tone to Márquez at his best. Couto writes in an idiom all his own that feels authentically African."-InkIn Mozambique after the end of the civil war, local soldiers have been unaccountably blown up. When it begins to happen to UN peacekeepers, a high-level delegation visits the village of Tizangara to initiate an investigation. As the UN investigation unfolds, Mia Couto brilliantly shows how the perceptions of events both inside and outside the country are altered when interpreted from an African perspective.Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent Portuguese-speaking African writer. He now lives in Maputo, where he manages the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
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Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1988
ISBN 10: 1852421118 ISBN 13: 9781852421113
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Chedid, Andrée.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 2002
ISBN 10: 1852426780 ISBN 13: 9781852426781
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardboiled in Hollywood tells the story of the tangled relations between the great crime novelists, from Dashiell Hammett to Elmore Leonard, and the Hollywood machine. Haut begins by showing the huge debt Hollywood owed to writers like Hammett, Chandler and James M. Cain, as the film versions of novels like The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity came to define film noir. Almost every significant American crime novelist since has served their time in Hollywood, some, like W.R. Burnett or Donald Westlake, with great success, more often, as with the likes of Jim Thompson and David Goodis, with great disillusion. Haut weaves in anecdote and analysis along with original interviews to provide an invaluable companion for moviegoers and crime fiction fans alike.Born in Detroit in 1945, Woody Haut has been a cinema programmer and, as journalist, was the Labour Editor for Rolling Stock magazine. He is the author of Neon Noir and Pulp Culture, published by Serpents Tail and now lives in London.Also available by Woody HautPulp CultureTP $15.99, 1-85242-319-6 CUSANeon NoirTP $16.99, 1-85242-547-4 CUSA.
Published by Serpent\'s Tail, 2006
ISBN 10: 1852424672 ISBN 13: 9781852424671
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin\'s upbringing. For this powerful, shocking novel, Lionel Shriver was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction.~from the back cover.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 1992
ISBN 10: 1852422130 ISBN 13: 9781852422134
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Iranian, now living in London, describes the harsh reality of moving when very young from a small Kurdish village to Teheran where, although blind, she was eventually to become the first woman to be admitted to Teheran University.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 2004
ISBN 10: 1852427590 ISBN 13: 9781852427597
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. "Montalb?n writes with authority and compassion?a Le Carr?-like sorrow."?Publishers WeeklyAs Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium, and the giant prawn sculptures of Mariscal. PI Pepe Carvalho now finds himself forced to work for the Olympic entrepreneurs. As Montalb?n?s overweight hero finds dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he discovers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City.
Published by Serpent\'s Tail, 1995
ISBN 10: 1852423080 ISBN 13: 9781852423087
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING & LIGHT CHAFING ON COVERS & SPINE. NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED IN BOOK. PAGES CLEAN AND INTACT. ONE PAGE HAS A TOP CREASE, NOT AFFECTING READABILITY.
Published by Serpent\'s Tail, 2000
ISBN 10: 1852424370 ISBN 13: 9781852424374
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Bruiser is the story of a love between two men wary of emotional commitment. Adrian fends for himself as a waiter, boxer and hustler until he meets Paul, a lonely British expatriate old enough to be his father. Rejecting their lives in Chicago, they embark on a road trip to Brazil. On the journey, they find adventure, though they cannot completely escape themselves.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 2005
ISBN 10: 1852428279 ISBN 13: 9781852428273
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Main. Part thriller, part exposé, Refusal Shoes is refreshingly politically incorrect and wickedly funny.-ObserverWhen Immigration Officer Henry Brinks unwittingly stumbles upon a scam to smuggle Chinese crooks into the country, he realizes that unless he can come up with a plan of his own, hell be leaving the service a lot sooner than anticipated. Refusal Shoes is a hilarious and brutal take on the murky world of passport control, where the immigration officers have seen every trick in the book and arent afraid to use a few of their own.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1988
ISBN 10: 1852421401 ISBN 13: 9781852421403
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Serpent's Tail, 1988. 5" x 7.75" tall; 226 pages.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1998
ISBN 10: 1852425970 ISBN 13: 9781852425975
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. Short stories by well known horror writer.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846687845 ISBN 13: 9781846687846
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. "Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."Booklist"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."The Washington PostJust thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.Michel Houellebecq is a multi-award-winning French author. He currently lives in Spain.
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Published by Serpent\'s Tail, 1997
ISBN 10: 1852425490 ISBN 13: 9781852425494
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. The Australian publishing sensation: a lesbian thriller in verse.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1995
ISBN 10: 1852423323 ISBN 13: 9781852423322
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Essays from one of America's most witty and irreverent cultural commentators.
Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 2002
ISBN 10: 185242673X ISBN 13: 9781852426736
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Main. Translated by Adriana HunterWhen you moved to France to a picturesque hamlet in the Dordogne no one said it would be like this in February: freezing cold, dark by mid-afternoon and so quiet. Members of the Caminade family keep dying in suspicious circumstances, and the doctor knows more about it than he's prepared to reveal. Slyly funny and delightfully laconic, Death in the Dordogne is the perfect accompaniment for anyone thinking about a holiday in France!An editor at a publishing house, Louis Sanders now lives in rural France in the Dordogne with his English wife.
Published by Serpent\'s Tail, 1999
ISBN 10: 1852425474 ISBN 13: 9781852425470
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Neon Noir, the follow-up to Woody Haut\'s highly regarded Pulp Culture, brings the story of American crime fiction and the related films up to date. From the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater, Neon Noir is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare. Haut investigates the dark side of America through the work of writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George P. Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846687357 ISBN 13: 9781846687358
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated. "Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."Publishers Weekly"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."William BoydA self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.
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Published by SERPENT S TAIL, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781257876 ISBN 13: 9781781257876
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Condition: new.
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Published by Serpent's Tail, 1996
ISBN 10: 1852424249 ISBN 13: 9781852424244
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Rare book.
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Published by Brand: Serpent's Tail, 1999
ISBN 10: 1852426276 ISBN 13: 9781852426279
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised. Rap is bigger than ever and now very much part of the mainstream.
Published by Serpent's Tail, 2011
ISBN 10: 184668739X ISBN 13: 9781846687396
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. "Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting. . . has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion."The New RepublicThe depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms.Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. His novels include I Should Have Stayed Home (1938), and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948).
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