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The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany
Donald E. Westlake
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Description for The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany
Paperback. Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. This book offers a clear picture of the man behind the books - including his background, experience, and thoughts on his own work. Editor(s): Stahl, Levi. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 374.
Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one - but two - long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's reputation has only grown, with fans continuing to marvel at his tightly constructed plots, no-nonsense prose, and keen, even unsettling, insights into human behavior. With The Getaway Car, we get our first glimpse at another side of Westlake the writer: what he did when he wasn't busy making stuff up. And it's fascinating. Setting previously published pieces, many little-seen, ... Read more
Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one - but two - long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's reputation has only grown, with fans continuing to marvel at his tightly constructed plots, no-nonsense prose, and keen, even unsettling, insights into human behavior. With The Getaway Car, we get our first glimpse at another side of Westlake the writer: what he did when he wasn't busy making stuff up. And it's fascinating. Setting previously published pieces, many little-seen, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226121819
SKU
V9780226121819
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About Donald E. Westlake
Donald E. Westlake (1933 - 2008) was a prolific author of crime fiction. In 1993, the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society's highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master. Levi Stahl is the promotions director of the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany
"Westlake was a treasure and a delight to read - the man was incapable of writing a paragraph without being witty and memorable and wise - and Westlake on Westlake is enjoyable in the extreme." -Charles Ardai "Stahl has done a superb job of ... separating the best of the wheat from the rest of the wheat - Don ... Read more