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Crime

[editor, Bill Buford]

(Granta, 46)

Granta , Penguin, 1994

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Description

Crime - why does it fascinate us so? It is both our greatest possible horror and our greatest possible entertainment. We fear it - it threatens our families, our privacy, our peace - and are pleasured by it: it is the stuff of our bestsellers, our movies, our Saturday night television. Crime thrills. This special edition of Granta is devoted exclusively to criminal behaviour, to the excesses of human conduct: a testimony to social deviance. It features James Ellroy - the most sophisticated member of a new generation of American crime writers: gifted, startling and very disturbed. And the extraordinary stories of two murderers - told by the murderers themselves: both born in the same city, in the same year and of the same religion (but such different endings).

Table of Contents

  • Dick Contino's Blues, James Ellroy
  • Autobiography of a Murderer: Hard Man, Hugh Collins
  • Autobiography of a Murderer: Blind Rage, Henry John Reid
  • Glasgow Victim, Hugh Barnes
  • Crime in the City, Andrew Savulich
  • The Penitentiary, Tim Willocks
  • Local Man has Sex with Corpse, Allan Gurganus
  • Foreign Bodies, Peregrine Hodson
  • Dizzy, Paul Auster
  • The Getaway Lunch, Tibor Fischer
  • The Black Sheep, Italo Calvino. Notes on Contributors.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA23294254
  • ISBN
    • 0140140662
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York,Harmondsworth
  • Pages/Volumes
    254 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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