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Blues for Charlie Darwin
by Nat Hentoff
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0668012609
- ISBN 13
- 9780668012607
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Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Morrow, New York, 1982, First Edition, First Printing, hardback, pp. 203, 8.5" tall, attractive sky blue boards with mid blue spine in DJ, book is fine (corners sharp) in good jacket (2 closed tears on front, 1 chip on rear). Nat Hentoff, the journalist renowned for his music writing and his work in the Village Voice and New Yorker, with a gritty, fast-paced detective story set in Greenwich Village.
Synopsis
Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he has a mean streak-and its name is Parker. From his noir classic The Man with the Getaway Face to his recent novel Nobody Runs Forever, whenever Westlake writes as Stark, he lets Parker run loose-a ruthless criminal in a world of vulnerable "straights."On a sunny October afternoon a man is running up a hill. He's not dressed for running. Below him are barking police dogs and waiting up ahead is a stranger-with a rifle, a life full of regrets, and a parrot at home who will mutely witness just how much trouble the runner, Parker, can bring into an ordinary life.The rabbit hunter is Tom Lindahl, a small-town lonely heart nursing a big-time grudge against the racetrack that fired him. He knows from the moment he sees Parker that he's met a professional thief-and a man with murder in his blood. Rescuing Parker from the chase hounds, Lindahl invites the fugitive into his secluded home. He plans to rip off his former employer and exact a deadly measure of revenge-if he can get Parker to help.But Tom doesn't know Parker and that the desperate criminal will do anything to survive-no matter who has to die...
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- The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Blues for Charlie Darwin
- Author
- Nat Hentoff
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0668012609
- ISBN 13
- 9780668012607
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
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The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop has a passion for fine and rare books covering all things art, all things music, 19th Century literature and culture, fine illustrations and modern firsts. The Cat digs artistic and counter-cultural movements, and also of course the unusual and the curious (hence the "Peculiar" in the name). The Cat's yen for the 19th century (including art, fashion, affairs, exploration) is possibly influenced by living in a 19th century brownstone, a future gallery for the store.Selling online since 2003 with great customer feedback - if the customer is happy, we are happy.
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