I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography, Hell Richard

Автор: Hell Richard
Название: I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: A Memoir
ISBN: 0062190830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062190833
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 2090.00 р.
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Описание:

The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll...

From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. His father died when he was seven, and at seventeen he left his mother and sister behind and headed for New York City, place of limitless possibilities. He arrived penniless with the idea of becoming a poet; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, starting such seminal bands as Television, the Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids--whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era. Hell was significantly responsible for creating CBGB as punk ground zero; his Voidoids toured notoriously with the Clash, and Malcolm McLaren would credit Hell as inspiration for the Sex Pistols. There were kinetic nights in New York's club demi-monde, descent into drug addiction, and an ever-present yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art.

"We lived in the suburbs in America in the fifties," Hell writes. "My roots are shallow. I'm a little jealous of people with strong ethnic and cultural roots. Lucky Martin Scorsese or Art Spiegelman or Dave Chappelle. I came from Hopalong Cassidy and Bugs Bunny and first grade at ordinary Maxwell Elementary." How this legendary downtown artist went from a prosaic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York's and London's restless youth cultures--and spawn the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debbie Harry--is just part of the fascinating story Hell tells. With stunning powers of observation, he delves into the details of both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.

An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, clarity, and piercing intelligence that classic journey: the life of one who comes from the hinterlands into the city in search of art and passion.

Автор: Littlejohn, Richard
Название: To hell in a handcart
ISBN: 000820909X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008209094
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 791.00 р.
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Описание: Richard Littlejohn exposes the madness of modern Britain in this thrill-packed rollercoaster ride of a novel, bursting with all the humour and irreverence that have made him Britain`s No 1 newspaper columnist.

Автор: Engel, Richard
Название: And Then All Hell Broke Loose
ISBN: 1451635125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451635126
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Цена: 1954.00 р.
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Описание: A riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, terrorism seen close up-sometimes dangerously so.

Автор: Hawke, Richard
Название: Cold Day in Hell
ISBN: 0345482190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345482198
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 735.00 р.
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Описание: In the stew and dazzle of New York City, savvy, irreverent Fritz Malone–who Susan Isaacs called “the perfect balance of noir P.I. and decent guy”–is embroiled in a string of grisly murders that drags him behind the lurid headlines into the tangled affairs of some the city’s most beautiful people and their ugly truths.

When two women linked with charismatic late-night TV personality Marshall Fox are found brutally slain in Central Park, Fox becomes the prime suspect and is charged with the murders. At the tabloid trial, one of Fox’s ex-lovers, Robin Burrell, is called to testify–and is instantly thrust into the media’s harsh spotlight.

Shaken by a subsequent onslaught of hate mail, Robin goes to Fritz Malone for help. Malone has barely begun to investigate when Robin is found sadistically murdered in her Upper West Side brownstone, hands and feet shackled and a shard of mirror protruding from her neck.

But it’s another gory detail that confounds both Malone and Megan Lamb, the troubled NYPD detective officially assigned to the case.

Though Fox is in custody the third victim’s right hand has been placed over her heart and pinned with a four-inch nail, just as in the killings he’s accused of. Is this a copycat murder, or is the wrong man on trial?

Teaming up with Detective Lamb, Malone delves deeper into Fox’s past, unpeeling the layers of the media darling’s secret life and developing an ever-increasing list of suspects for Robin’s murder. When yet another body turns up in Central Park, the message is clear: Get too close to Fox and get ready to die.



And Malone is getting too close.

In Cold Day in Hell, Richard Hawke has again given readers a tale about the dark side of the big city, a thriller that moves with breakneck speed toward a conclusion that is as shocking as it is unforgettable.

Praise for Richard Hawke’s Speak of the Devil

“Richard Hawke has managed what some writers spend a lifetime trying to accomplish: He has come up with a character and place that should entertain in countless stories to come.”
–Rocky Mountain News

“Fast-moving, first-rate . . .

Hawke’s plot grabs us by the throat. . .

. He keeps the suspense mounting.”
–The Washington Post

“[A] bang-bang thriller . .

. We are absolutely powerless to stop reading.”
–Chicago Tribune

“Mr. Hawke’s [novel] tours the city .

. . with unusual streetwise panache .

. . but this isn’t a book that coasts on its urban geography.

It lives by its wits, and its wits would work anywhere.”
–The New York Times

“A deftly paced debut that crackles and pops from page 1.”
–Booklist (starred review)

“Thrill-a-minute pacing and inspired plot twists.”
–Newsday

“[An] amazing thriller . . .

Hawke’s dialogue is sharp and snappy and the plot moves with all the energy of New York City.”
–Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Hawke razzle-dazzles us with . . .

bada-bing narration and quirky, well-drawn characters.”
–The Boston Globe

“[Packed] with a breathless pace and hair-pin turns.”
–South Florida Sun-Sentinel