Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
This book is dedicated to all those people who can't draw horses. Crushed to discover at the tender age of 7 that he didn't have an aptitude for drawing, Peter Vegas decided to pour his heart and soul into perfecting the art of the humble stick figure. The result is the original, quirky, and extremely funny>Stickmen. Stickmen elevates everyone's favorite line drawings to a hilarious new level. Featuring more than 100 clever drawings with ingenious dialogue, it will forever change the way people look at stick figures. It's an idiosyncratic masterpiece for every frustrated creative soul who lacks the talent but loves the art.
Masterfully shocking * The Observer *
One of the greatest mysteries ever written -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon * The Independent *
A terrific book..I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written the Exorcist is as close as I can come -- Stephen King
A sort of ultimate detective story...it is one breathless read in high paced prose -- Thomas Keneally
Brilliant and frightening -- Thomas McGuane
One of the greatest mysteries ever written -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon * The Independent *
A terrific book..I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written the Exorcist is as close as I can come -- Stephen King
A sort of ultimate detective story...it is one breathless read in high paced prose -- Thomas Keneally
Brilliant and frightening -- Thomas McGuane
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. He died in 2017.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842431542 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842431544 |
| Titel | Falling Angel |
| Autor | William Hjortsberg |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2005-09-07 |
| Seitenanzahl | 256 |
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