Twenty years after the publication of his first short story collection, Monday's Meal , Les Edgerton delivers the goods once again in this collection of harrowing tales of outlaws, ex-cons, frightened men and women, rap-partners throwing back tall boys and taller tales, children forced to become killers, stabbings and shootings, bad asses and sad asses...a wide-ranging collection of distinct and memorable characters who will exhibit a kind of wisdom not obtainable from the halls of academia. This is not a gathering of ...
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Twenty years after the publication of his first short story collection, Monday's Meal , Les Edgerton delivers the goods once again in this collection of harrowing tales of outlaws, ex-cons, frightened men and women, rap-partners throwing back tall boys and taller tales, children forced to become killers, stabbings and shootings, bad asses and sad asses...a wide-ranging collection of distinct and memorable characters who will exhibit a kind of wisdom not obtainable from the halls of academia. This is not a gathering of people contemplating their navels but real people facing the consequences of their actions...and it ain't often pretty. Praise for Les Edgerton... "Les Edgerton has swiftly become my favorite crime writer. Original voice, uncompromising attitude and a pure hardboiled style leap him to the front ranks of my reading list. He will become legendary." -Joe R. Lansdale, author of Paradise Sky , The Bottoms , Edge of Dark Water , The Thicket , and the Hap and Leonard series, the books behind the TV series of the same name, and many others "Reading Les Edgerton's stories is like listening to those old World War II broadcasts from the London blitz, with the reporter crouching under a restaurant table, microphone in hand, while the bombs drop on the city and the ceiling caves in. Edgerton reports on the world and the news is not good. There's a kind of wacky wisdom in these bulletins from the underside of life; the stories are full of people you hope never move in next door, for whom ordinary life is an impossible dream. This is good fiction; Edgerton writes lean and nasty prose." -Dr. Francois Camoin, Director, Graduate School of English, University of Utah and author of Benbow and Paradise , Like Love , But Not Exactly , Deadly Virtues , The End of the World Is Los Angeles and Why Men Are Afraid of Women "Les Edgerton is the new High King of Noir." -Ken Bruen, author of The Emerald Lie , The Guards , Pimp , and many others
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