Savage Season: A Hap and Leonard Novel (1) - Brossura

Lansdale, Joe R.

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ISBN 10: 0307455386 ISBN 13: 9780307455383

Casa editrice: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2009

Riassunto

When his old flame returns to LaBorde, Texas, with a scam to dredge the local river for half a million in long-lost hold-up money, Hap Collins and his buddy Leonard Pine, a black, gay Vietnam veteran, find themselves confronted with a killer named Soldier. Reprint

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"Hilarious. . . . Lansdale is a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country boy wit."—The Washington Post Book World"For sheer pace, humor, and style, the winner is Savage Season."—Time Out New York“The most consistently original and originally visceral writer the great state of Texas (or any other state for that matter) has seen in a score of flashpoint summers.”—Austin Chronicle “Lansdale has an unsettling sensibility. Be thankful he crafts such wild tall tales.”—Chicago Sun-Times

L'autore:

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies.

Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.

A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror." He is currently co-producing a TV series, "Hap and Leonard" for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero.

Lansdale is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

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• Editore: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307455386
• ISBN 13: 9780307455383
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192