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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Daniel Pelavin (illustratore). First edition. First printing October 1998. 18th novel featuring Parker, master thief.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Daniel Pelavin (illustratore). First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 5.125 inches by 7.75 inches. [8], 292, [2] pages. The dust jacket has some wear and soiling. Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the master thief deep in troubled waters when his plan to hijack a riverboat casino goes awry. Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 December 31, 2008) was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction with an occasional foray into other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hardboiled Parker, and John Dortmunder, who featured in a humorous series. He was a three-time Edgar Award winner and, alongside Joe Gores and William L. DeAndrea, was one of few writers to win Edgars in three different categories. In 1993, the Mystery Writers of America named Westlake a Grand Master, the highest honor bestowed by the society. Derived from a Kirkus review: Parker is being courted by retired state employee Hilliard Cathman, who claims his deceased partner Howell to rob a gambling ship cruising the Hudson, and wants to know if Parker might be interested in taking Howell's place. Parker sets up the score: putting together a gang, arranging elaborate measures for getting the necessary weaponry past the ship's tight security and setting up separate escape routes for the robbers and the loot. However, Ray Becker, the bent cop who killed Howell, knows about the job and is desperate to hijack the money. And he's not the only one. Richard Stark: Westlake's best-known continuing pseudonym was that of Richard Stark. The Stark pseudonym was notable both for the sheer amount of writing credited to it (far more than any other except Westlake's real name itself), as well as for Stark's particular style of writing, which was colder, darker, less sentimental, and less overtly humorous than Westlake's usual prose. For a period in the late 1960s, the popularity of the Parker series made Stark's name more well-known and more lucrative for Westlake than his real name. According to Westlake, he chose the name "Richard Stark" for actor Richard Widmark, whose performance in the film Kiss of Death impressed Westlake: "part of the character's fascination and danger is his unpredictability. He's fast and mean, and that's what I wanted the writing to be: crisp and lean, no fat, trimmed down . stark." Westlake described the difference between Stark's style and his usual style in a 2001 article for the New York Times Book Review: "Stark and Westlake use language very differently. To some extent they're mirror images. Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo. Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information." Stark debuted in 1959, with a story in Mystery Digest. Four other Stark short stories followed through 1961, including "The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution", later the title story in Westlake's first short-story collection. Then, from 1962 to 1974, sixteen novels about the relentless and remorseless professional thief Parker and his accomplices (including larcenous actor Alan Grofield) appeared and were credited to Richard Stark. After Butcher's Moon in 1974, Westlake unexpectedly found himself unable to tap into what he called Stark's "personality." Despite repeated attempts to bring him back, Westlake was unsatisfied. Years later, when Westlake had been hired to write the screenplay for The Grifters, director Stephen Frears was so impressed by its lean, cold attitude that he insisted that the screenplay had been written by Stark, not Westlake, and even tried to get Stark's name officially credited as the writer. Westlake said that "I got out of that one by explaining Richard Stark wasn't a member of the Writer's Guild. I don't think he's a joiner, actually." Stark was inactive until 1997, when Westlake once again began writing and publishing Parker novels unde.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 295 p., [8] p. of plates ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 1555840760; 9781555840761 LCCN: 87-22490 ; LC: N6512; Dewey: 709/.73 ; OCLC: 16683887 ; blue and white cloth with gold lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: America as paradise -- Geometry, American-style -- Synchromism : a tale of the two Gertrudes -- Photography in America -- Filthy pictures -- Venus envy -- The auction is the action -- Diane Arbus : the American scene as the American nightmare -- Andy Warhol's aluminum foil : the mirror of our time -- Pop in perspective -- Roy Lichtenstein : reproduction as representation -- ABC art -- Color-field painting : the Washington school -- Mondrian boogies in New York -- The late paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe -- Decoys and doubles : Jasper Johns and the modernist mind -- Ellsworth Kelly : an American in Paris -- Painting within the tradition : the career of Helen Frankenthaler -- Seventies painting -- Jackson Pollock and the death of painting -- Sculpture and perception -- Blowup : the problem of scale in sculpture -- Lucas Samaras : the self as icon and environment -- John Chamberlain : painterly sculpture -- On Mark di Suvero : sculpture outside walls -- Richard Serra : the site is specific -- Sculpture in the seventies -- About Eva Hesse -- Art criticism in America -- One-dimensional criticism -- Criticism as propaganda -- The politics of art -- The myth of Pollock and the failure of criticism -- Document of an age -- Protest in art -- Twilight of the superstars -- American painting : the eighties -- Art in discoland. ; small tear at bottom of spine, else VG/VG. Book.