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Night and the City
 
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Night and the City (Paperback)

de Gerald Kersh (Author)
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The first title in ibooks' series of classic mysteries by Gerald Kersh. Harry Fabian has a dream to become the top wrestling promoter in London, but he has a problem: he needs money. Not too much - only one hundred pounds, but it might as well be a million because he needs the money by the end of the week. Hunting for victims to blackmail and con out of money, Fabian moves through the clip joints, jazz clubs, wrestling gyms, bottle bars, and all-night cafes of 1930s London, spiralling further and further into the depths of immorality and depravity. And by the time his quest is over, Ilarry Fabian will have entered the tenth circle of the Inferno, dragging everybody he knows down with him...


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Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) was born in Teddington-on-Thames, London and died penniless as an American citizen in Kingston, New York. He wrote over 1,000 articles, 400 short stories, and 19 novels. His account of infantry training They Die With Their Boots Clean (1941), became an instant best-seller during World War Two, and launched Kersh on a glittering career. Tax, health and personal problems in later life did not prevent Kersh from writing forgotten masterpieces like Prelude To A Certain Midnight (1947), Fowlers End (1957), The Implacable Hunter (1961) And The Angel And The Cuckoo (1966)

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Too tough for some., Janv. 31 2004
Par S Smyth (Belfast, Co Antrim United Kingdom) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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He's a guy who'd blackmail a man with a dying wife; sacrifice an aging wrestler in a fight for a meagre profit; sell his prostitute girlfriend, whom he lives off, to white-slavers. He's Harry Fabian, one of London town's low-life, with a humble, street-trader brother that loves him all the same.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Great writer, ghastly subject, Janv. 20 2002
Par R. Wallace "Bob Wallace" (St. Louis, Mo USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This is the first book I've ever read by Kersh, and I'll say he verges on being a great writer, who turns a phrase better than any writer I've come across. However, this is strictly a book for adults; bitter, cynical, and cruel. Did Kersh live this life? The whole book is set at night, and deals with the worst possible nightlife--pimps, whores, drunks, criminals, liars, braggarts. This novel was written in the 1940's (which shows human nature doesn't change). Kersh is a wonderful stylist; the way he describes the world in this book can literally make you feel ill. All is not lost, though; there are two people, a sculptor, and a woman trying not to get dragged down into the hellhole the author describes, who are trying their darndest to get away what I can only describe as Dante's Inferno. Even is this worst of worlds, love can redeem. Don't read this book at one sitting, though.
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