Night And The City - Hardcover

Kersh, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0955185130 ISBN 13: 9780955185137

Verlag: London Books, 2007

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Light wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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Reseña del editor:

Harry Fabian has a dream to become the top wrestling promoter, but he needs 100 by the end of the week. Hunting for victims to blackmail & con out of money, Fabian moves through the clubs of 1930s London, dragging himself into the depths of depravity."

Biografía del autor:

Gerald Kersh was born in West London in 1911 and produced nineteen novels and hundreds of short stories and magazine articles. At his peak he was a well-known figure in both England and the United States, where he eventually settled, but also lived a full life away from his desk, his story reading like one of his more imaginative inventions.

Before making his mark as an author, Kersh held various jobs ranging from cinema manager to cook to minder, and at times slept rough. He wasn¹t scared of a fight and carried the scars to prove it, enlisted in the Guards during the Second World War and even attended the liberation of Paris as a correspondent.

While Kersh spent his childhood in the suburbs, he had family connections in Soho, and knew the area well, later setting several novels there, Night And The City being an example. This was turned into a film in 1950 by Jules Dassin, and while Kersh didn¹t appreciate the adaptation starring Richard Widmark, it remains a classic example of British noir. It was later filmed again, this time starring Robert De Niro, this time set in New York.

Other London novels include Prelude To A Certain Midnight, Fowler's End and The Angel And The Cuckoo, but Kersh's work reaches far beyond the capital, and indeed England, as the likes of The Implacable Hunter ­ his version of the story of St Paul ­ prove.

Gerald Kersh died in the US in 1968 after some tough years, largely ignored by the critics and hard-up financially, his health poor, but reviving the sleeve notes of the first edition of The Implacable Hunter, he remains best known for his vigourous, Rabelaisian approach to life'.

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• Verlag: London Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0955185130
• ISBN 13: 9780955185137
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274