The Final Country by James Crumley
A Byzantine tangle of crime, sex, drugs, violence and retribution in red-neck Texas from the ultimate hard-boiled writerPraise for The Final Country:
‘This is an extraordinary double-barrelled blast from a lost eraIt’s a two-fisted epic of Texan treachery, packed to the gunwales with sex, drugs, booze and guns… ‘John Williams, Independent
‘Lyrical, liberal, exciting and humane. Sexy, too, with a generosity that transcends taste and as violent as needs be’ Literary Review
‘This complex thriller is so hardboiled it makes Ellroy and Connelly read like Simon and Garfunkel… it’s good. Very good’ Jim Driver, Time Out
James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Texas in El Paso and summers in Missoula, Montana. The Final Country is his sixth novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007130818 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007130813 |
| Title | The Final Country |
| Author | James Crumley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2003-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Winner of CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction 2002, Winner of Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award 2002 |
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