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

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by Joe R. Lansdale
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joe R. Lansdale, S. A. Cosby (Foreword by)Publish date:2023-08-15Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tachyon PublicationsISBN-13:9781616963965ISBN-10:1616963964UPC:9781616963965Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Short Stories (single author), Small Town & RuralSize:8.96 x 6.14 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCT6Q6AVYA
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.

"Pulpy, blackly humorous, compulsively readable, and somehow both wildly surreal and down-to-earth. Lansdale is a national fucking treasure."
--Christa Faust, author of Money Shot

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tachyon PublicationsISBN-13:9781616963965ISBN-10:1616963964UPC:9781616963965Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Short Stories (single author), Small Town & RuralSize:8.96 x 6.14 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCT6Q6AVYA
Joe R. Lansdale (Savage Season, The Donut Legion) is the internationally-bestselling author of over fifty novels, including the popular, long-running Hap and Leonard novels. Many of his works have been adapted for television and film, most famously the films The Thicket, Bubba Ho-Tep, Cold in July, and the Hap and Leonard series on Sundance TV and AMC. Lansdale has written numerous screenplays and teleplays, including the iconic Batman: The Animated Series. He has won an Edgar Award for The Bottoms, ten Stoker Awards, and he has been designated a World Horror Grandmaster. Lansdale, like many of his characters, lives in East Texas, with his wife, Karen.
Publisher: Tachyon Publications

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Joe R. Lansdale, S. A. Cosby (Foreword by)

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Joe R. Lansdale

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