Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Filmed as Angel Heart by Alan Parker
An outstanding, spellbinding novel of murder, mystery and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye, Harry Angel against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced - one Louis Cyphre. For Angel a routine missing-persons case turns into a fiendish nightmare of voodoo and black magic, of dizzying peril and violent death - a world in which the shadow he chases seems to be the shadow he casts.
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 |
| Title | Falling Angel |
| Author | William Hjortsberg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Year published | 2005-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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