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Synopsis
Fast One is possibly the toughest tough-guy and most brutal gangster story ever written. Set in Depression Los Angeles it has a surreal quality that is positively hypnotic. It is the saga of gunman-gambler Gerry Kells and his dipso lover S. Granquist (she has no first name), who rearrange the LA underworld and "disappear" in an explosive climax that matches their first appearance. The pace is incredible and relentless and the complex plot with its twists and turns defies summary. One Los Angeles reviewer called the book 'a ceaseless welter of bloodshed'; while the Saturday Review of Literature thought it 'the hardest-boiled yarn of a decade.'
Fast One was originally a collection of stories featuring the gambler/gunman Kells. The tales ran in Black Mask magazine from 1931-1932
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Irvin Faust is a writer and teacher whose novels include Roar Lion Roar (1965) and Willy Remembers (1971). He lives in New York City.
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Fast One
Seller: Zardoz Books, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
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First Edition. Condition: fine. fine Trade 1st No Exit Press 1987 edition paperback white cover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse. Seller Inventory # 229051
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Fast One
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No Exit Press, Harpenden, Herts., 1987
ISBN 10: 094835304X
ISBN 13: 9780948353048
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Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Forster, Alan (illustrator). Second Paperback Edition. First printing of the No Exit paperback edition from 1987. There was another No Exit edition in their cheaper £1.99 'Crime Cuts' series in 1989 in a smaller format with a different cover design. Originally published in the US in 1933 and then by Constable in the UK in 1933. The first UK paperback publication was as a Big Ben Book published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd in 1940. There is a little creasing around the corners of the covers and some reading creasing to the spine but otherwise only light edge and surface wear to the covers. Page edges browned with two small brown marks to the top edges and a small crease to the top corner of the first page. The pages are browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover design by Alan Forster. Seller Inventory # 022707
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Fast One
Seller: BonTaix, Aachen, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Very Good. Das Buch befindet sich in einem guten gebrauchten Zustand. Der Einband weist leichte, alters- und gebrauchsbedingte Spuren auf. Die Seiten sind leicht vergilbt, insgesamt jedoch sauber und gut erhalten. Insgesamt ein ordentliches Exemplar der No-Exit-Ausgabe von 1987.---Fast One ist ein klassischer Hardboiled-Kriminalroman, der im Los Angeles der frühen 1930er-Jahre spielt. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Spieler und Gangster Gerry Kells, der in eine von Korruption, rivalisierenden Unterweltgruppen und Gewalt geprägte Welt gerät. Der Roman zeichnet sich durch sein hohes Tempo, eine düstere Atmosphäre und einen ausgesprochen knappen Erzählstil aus. Die zugrunde liegenden Geschichten erschienen ursprünglich 1931/32 im legendären Magazin Black Mask. nein. Seller Inventory # 22086