Mystery and Crime Willeford, Charles: Pick-Up. v1, 03 Sept 2008

[Dr. Drib]

This title was released under a Creative Commons License with a link to the book here. There is additional acknowledgement AND a link again placed at the end of the book. Book was acquired from Munseys, BUT REFORMATED BY ME TO MY SPECIFICATIONS.

http://www.munseys.com/book/19436/PICK-UP

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This is Charles Willeford’s second published novel. As such, it’s gritty and hard, full of down-and-outers, and with Willeford's wonderful noir prose. As the cover states, “He holed up with a helpless lush.”

As one review states:

“This is a psychological tale with a thriller's edge and a suggestion of criminality. The story centers on two seemingly blue-collared alcoholics attempting to find validity in lives that once promised and should mean and hold something more. As any good noir fiction, this is a story about an attempt to find a connection, with another like-minded individual, which comes close but ultimately fails. And of course, as any good noir fiction, it deals with a connection, which could have worked, if not for unfortunate and ill-fated timing.”

http://www.amazon.com/Pick-up-Charle...0485226&sr=1-4

I hope you like it.


Don