Digger's Game - Hardcover

Higgins, George V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043619581X ISBN 13: 9780436195815

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1973

Synopsis

Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition, first edition, first printing. Publisher's showroom copy with stamp to FEP. Jacket in creased clear plastic cover and edgewear to jacket. Gilt lettering and small mark to spine, and spine ends are faintly bumped. Mark to FEP and a few faint marks to page block. Pages are sound and text is bright and clear throughout. TA

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Review

"Another bullseye for Higgins!" --"The New York Times"
"Digger is so real that the next time you order a drink from a bartender, you'll look at him hard, wondering what he does on his days off."--"Los Angeles Times"
"Higgins is one hell of a writer."--"Newsday "
"Aspiring writers of any genre, not just legal suspense, would be wise to read lots of George Higgins." --John Grisham
"Higgins deserves to stand in the company of the likes of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction." --Scott Turow
"Higgins can plot a whole book like one long chase scene. He can write dialogue so authentic it spits." --"Life"
"The Balzac of the Boston underworld. ... Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them ... as distinctive as a fingerprint."--"The New Yorker"
"One of the great crime writers of the twentieth century." --"Kansas City Star"
"Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched." --"The Washington Post"
"A uniquely gifted writer . . . who does at least as well by the Hogarthian Boston he knows as Raymond Chandler once did for Southern California."" --The New York Times "
Another bullseye for Higgins! "The New York Times"
Digger is so real that the next time you order a drink from a bartender, you ll look at him hard, wondering what he does on his days off. "Los Angeles Times"
"Higgins is one hell of a writer."--"Newsday "
"Aspiring writers of any genre, not just legal suspense, would be wise to read lots of George Higgins." --John Grisham
Higgins deserves to stand in the company of the likes of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction. Scott Turow
"Higgins can plot a whole book like one long chase scene. He can write dialogue so authentic it spits." "Life"
"The Balzac of the Boston underworld. ... Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them ... as distinctive as a fingerprint." "The New Yorker"
One of the great crime writers of the twentieth century. "Kansas City Star"
Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched. --"The Washington Post"
A uniquely gifted writer . . . who does at least as well by the Hogarthian Boston he knows as Raymond Chandler once did for Southern California. " The New York Times"
"
Another bullseye for Higgins! The New York Times
Digger is so real that the next time you order a drink from a bartender, you ll look at him hard, wondering what he does on his days off. Los Angeles Times
"Higgins is one hell of a writer."--Newsday
"Aspiring writers of any genre, not just legal suspense, would be wise to read lots of George Higgins." --John Grisham
Higgins deserves to stand in the company of the likes of Chandler and Hammett as one of the true innovators in crime fiction. Scott Turow
"Higgins can plot a whole book like one long chase scene. He can write dialogue so authentic it spits." Life
"The Balzac of the Boston underworld. ... Higgins is almost uniquely blessed with a gift for voices, each of them ... as distinctive as a fingerprint." The New Yorker
One of the great crime writers of the twentieth century. Kansas City Star
Higgins writes about the world of crime with an authenticity that is unmatched. --The Washington Post
A uniquely gifted writer . . . who does at least as well by the Hogarthian Boston he knows as Raymond Chandler once did for Southern California. The New York Times
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About the Author

George V. Higgins was the author of more than twenty novels, including the bestsellers The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Cogan's Trade, The Rat on Fire, and The Digger's Game. He was a reporter for the Providence Journal and the Associated Press before obtaining a law degree from Boston College Law School in 1967. He was an assistant attorney general and then an assistant United States attorney in Boston from 1969 to 1973. He later taught Creative Writing at Boston University. He died in 1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043619581X
• ISBN 13: 9780436195815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214