The Devil's Home on Leave - Hardcover

Raymond, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436405016 ISBN 13: 9780436405013

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1985

Synopsis

Leisure Circle 1985 hardcover 1986 fine condition book in near fine condition dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

About this title

Review:

"A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance... and naked brutality"

--"The Daily Telegraph"

"No one claiming interest in literature truly written from the edge of human experience, no one wondering at the limits of the crime novel and of literature itself, can overlook these extraordinary books."
--James Sallis

"There remains no finer writing - crime or otherwise - about the state of Britain."
--David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet."

"More Chandleresque than Chandler... [Raymond] could write beautifully...and, more importantly, what he is writing about in this novel are nothing less than the important subjects any writer can deal with: mortality and death."
--Will Self

"A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance... and naked brutality"
--"The Daily Telegraph"

"I cannot think of another writer so obsessed with the skull beneath the skin."
--"The Times" (London)

"A crackerjack of a crime novel, unafraid to face the reality of man's and woman's evil."
--"Evening Standard"

"The beautiful, ruthless simplicity of the Factory novels is that Raymond rewrites the basic ethos of the classic detective novel."
--Charles Taylor, "The Nation
"
"Hellishly bleak and moving.""
--New Statesman
"

Praise for Derek Raymond's Factory Series
"It's one of the darkest and most surrealistically hard-boiled things I've ever read. The detective is at least as scary as the murderers he's chasing."
--William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer"
"No one claiming interest in literature truly written from the edge of human experience, no one wondering at the limits of the crime novel and of literature itself, can overlook these extraordinary books."
--James Sallis, author of "Drive"
"The Factory novels are certainly the most viscerally imagined of their kind that I've ever read, or reread multiple times. Derek Raymond wrote in a supposedly escapist genre in a manner that precluded any hope of escape."
--Scott Phillips, bestselling author of "The Ice Harvest"
"There remains no finer writing - crime or otherwise - about the state of Britain."
--David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet."
"Carve Derek Raymond's name into the literary pantheon. He is one of the rare authors who seek to understand evil, ferret out the darkness in human nature, and blast Noir fiction out of the genre ghetto and into Literature. His nameless detective's quest through the bleak streets gets under your skin. Amazing, painful and brilliant."
--Cara Black, bestselling author of "Murder at the Lanterne Rouge"
""I Was Dora Suarez" blew me away - beyond hard boiled."
--Patton Oswalt
"More Chandleresque than Chandler... [Raymond] could write beautifully...and, more importantly, what he is writing about in this novel are nothing less than the important subjects any writer can deal with: mortality and death."
--Will Self
"A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance... and naked brutality"
--"The Daily Telegraph"
"I cannot think of another writer so obsessed with the skull beneath the skin."
--"The Times" (London)
"A crackerjack of a crime novel, unafraid to face the reality of man's and woman'

Praise for Derek Raymond's Factory Series
"Unrelenting existentialist noir--as if the most brutal of crime fictions had been recast by Sartre, Camus, or Ionesco while retaining something of the intimate wise-guy tone of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett."
--Joyce Carol Oates, "The New York Review of Books
""It's one of the darkest and most surrealistically hard-boiled things I've ever read. The detective is at least as scary as the murderers he's chasing."
--William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer"
"No one claiming interest in literature truly written from the edge of human experience, no one wondering at the limits of the crime novel and of literature itself, can overlook these extraordinary books."
--James Sallis, author of "Drive"
"The Factory novels are certainly the most viscerally imagined of their kind that I've ever read, or reread multiple times. Derek Raymond wrote in a supposedly escapist genre in a manner that precluded any hope of escape."
--Scott Phillips, bestselling author of "The Ice Harvest"
"There remains no finer writing - crime or otherwise - about the state of Britain."
--David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet."
"Carve Derek Raymond's name into the literary pantheon. He is one of the rare authors who seek to understand evil, ferret out the darkness in human nature, and blast Noir fiction out of the genre ghetto and into Literature. His nameless detective's quest through the bleak streets gets under your skin. Amazing, painful and brilliant."
--Cara Black, bestselling author of "Murder at the Lanterne Rouge"
""I Was Dora Suarez" blew me away - beyond hard boiled."
--Patton Oswalt
"More Chandleresque than Chandler... [Raymond] could write beautifully...and, more importantly, what he is writing about in this novel are nothing less than the important subjects any writer can deal with: mortality and death."
--Will Self
"A bizarre mixtu

Praise for Derek Raymond's Factory Series
"Unrelenting existentialist noir--as if the most brutal of crime fictions had been recast by Sartre, Camus, or Ionesco while retaining something of the intimate wise-guy tone of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett."
--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
"It's one of the darkest and most surrealistically hard-boiled things I've ever read. The detective is at least as scary as the murderers he's chasing."
--William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer
"No one claiming interest in literature truly written from the edge of human experience, no one wondering at the limits of the crime novel and of literature itself, can overlook these extraordinary books."
--James Sallis, author of Drive
"The Factory novels are certainly the most viscerally imagined of their kind that I've ever read, or reread multiple times. Derek Raymond wrote in a supposedly escapist genre in a manner that precluded any hope of escape."
--Scott Phillips, bestselling author of The Ice Harvest
"There remains no finer writing - crime or otherwise - about the state of Britain."
--David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet."
"Carve Derek Raymond's name into the literary pantheon. He is one of the rare authors who seek to understand evil, ferret out the darkness in human nature, and blast Noir fiction out of the genre ghetto and into Literature. His nameless detective's quest through the bleak streets gets under your skin. Amazing, painful and brilliant."
--Cara Black, bestselling author of Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
"I Was Dora Suarez blew me away - beyond hard boiled."
--Patton Oswalt
"More Chandleresque than Chandler... [Raymond] could write beautifully...and, more importantly, what he is writing about in this novel are nothing less than the important subjects any writer can deal with: mortality and death."
--Will Self
"A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance... and naked brutality"
--The Daily Telegraph
"I cannot think of another writer so obsessed with the skull beneath the skin."
--The Times (London)
"A crackerjack of a crime novel, unafraid to face the reality of man's and woman's evil."
--Evening Standard
"The beautiful, ruthless simplicity of the Factory novels is that Raymond rewrites the basic ethos of the classic detective novel."
--Charles Taylor, The Nation

"Hellishly bleak and moving."
--New Statesman
"These are dark, horrible and lovely."
--Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers

Book Description:

The second novel in Derek Raymond's Factory detective crime series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0436405016
• ISBN 13: 9780436405013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192