Falling Angel William Hjortsberg

Name: Falling Angel By William Hjortsberg
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Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg

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Summary

An outstanding, spellbinding novel of murder, mystery and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye, Harry Angel against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced - one Louis Cyphre. For Angel a routine missing-persons case turns into a fiendish nightmare of voodoo and black magic, of dizzying peril...

Falling Angel Summary

Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg

Filmed as Angel Heart by Alan Parker

Falling Angel Reviews

Masterfully shocking * The Observer *
One of the greatest mysteries ever written -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon * The Independent *
A terrific book...I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written the Exorcist is as close as I can come -- Stephen King
A sort of ultimate detective story...it is one breathless read in high paced prose -- Thomas Keneally
Brilliant and frightening -- Thomas McGuane

About William Hjortsberg

William Hjortsberg (1941-2017) was an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg's first success came with Alp (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg's friend Thomas McGuane called, 'quite possibly the finest comic novel written in America.' In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1973), as well as Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is Falling Angel (1978), a hard-boiled occult mystery. In 1987 the book was adapted into a film titled Angel Heart, which starred Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke. Hjortsberg's work also includes Jubilee Hitchhiker (2012), a biography of Richard Brautigan, American writer and voice of 1960s counterculture. He died in 2017.

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Sku

GOR001311846

ISBN 13

9781842431542

ISBN 10

1842431544

Title

Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg

Author

William Hjortsberg

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Oldcastle Books Ltd

Year published

20050907

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

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Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us