Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale

Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale

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Publisher's Synopsis

Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series), one of America's most essential crime writers, heads back to the dangerous woods of East Texas. In his first crime career-retrospective, including previously uncollected work, Lansdale shows exactly why critics continue to compare him to Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle. A lonely man engages in dubious acts while pining for his rubber duckie. In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly - and fast.

Book information

ISBN: 9781616963965
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Imprint: Tachyon Publications
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Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 366g
Height: 153mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 23mm