Irvine Welsh 11693

Filth

Vintage. Paperback. Pp: 394. Paperback edition of Welsh's latest novel, which is again characterised by extremely black humour, bleak social realism and imagery which at times verges on the grotesque. Widely acclaimed by many as his best piece of work since the seminal Trainspotting. With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Still it will mean plenty of overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition - in the form of truth and ethical conscience - from the most unexpected quarter of all: his anus. In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most corrupt, misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction , and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleaze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name. ISBN: 9780099591115. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 810677

Catalogus: Literatuur anderstalig

Trefwoorden: 9780099591115

Laura Restrepo 30302

Leopard in the Sun

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000. Paperback. Pp: 256. In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barragáns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply.  As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts-and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets.                          Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news. ISBN: 9780375705083. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3459417

Catalogus: Literatuur anderstalig

Trefwoorden: 9780375705083

Robert Wilcocks 50088

Maelzel's Chess Player

Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Paperback. Pp: 345. This is the first study of Freud's texts to incorporate the intellectual findings of Adolf Grünbaum, the archival material published by Jeffrey Masson (the recently published correspondence between Freud and Wilhelm Fliess) and Lewin's profile of long-term cocaine users. Wilcocks challenges literary critics who have granted Freud's writings "scientific" status, and claims that the works are no more than the rhetorical deceptions of a talented writer. Through a careful examination of the Freud-Fliess correspondence and of Freud's case histories, and through a novel comparison of Freud's rhetorical devices with Poe's rhetoric of deception in the essay "Maelzel's Chess-Player," Wilcocks reveals that Freud was a talented but disturbed master of deception, including self-deception. ISBN: 9780847678105. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2983067

Catalogus: Psychologie

Trefwoorden: 9780847678105

Tim Burgess 252319

Telling Stories

Viking, 2012. Paperback. Pp: 233. Telling Stories by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books 'Clear, honest. An unusually frank and well-written rock memoir' The Times The Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs, the lows, the joys, the agonies, and the stories of what it's like to be in a rock band, as told by front man and survivor, Tim Burgess. 'Like the best bits of every cautionary rock star tale. there is armed robbery and smuggling. There's serious fraud. There are near and actual death experiences, divorce, industrial cocaine consumption and magnificent cameos from Madonna, Alan McGee, Ronnie Wood, Joe Strummer, LA drug dealer Harry The Dog, and Joaquin Phoenix. A minor classic' Q For readers who enjoyed Life by Keith Richards and Bit of a Blur by Alex James, Telling Stories is one of the finest music books of recent times. It's a story of achievement and survival, from London to LA. 'A vivid read' Independent on Sunday 'The Charlatans' frontman recalls the heyday of Britpop and Madchester with endearing exuberance. He's unflinchingly honest about the bad times but also peppers his story with anecdotal nuggets about the pitfalls of rock 'n' roll excess' Metro 'Burgess keeps a level head, a sharp eye and a nice turn of phrase' Independent 'Written with the stylish flow of a novel - light and dark, hilarious and melancholic' Emma Forrest 'For a man whose behaviour borders on the suicidal, Timothy Burgess, the people's friend, is what you call a life enthusiast. He is also mad. It's a much-abused word, mad. but he really is proper coo-ee clouds pan-dimensional mad mad' Syliva Patteerson, Sky Tim Burgess was born in Salford but grew up in a village near Northwich, Cheshire. Leaving school at 16 to work at ICI, his real love was music and soon afterwards he was invited to join new band The Charlatans. For twelve years Burgess lived in Los Angeles but he has recently returned to the UK. ISBN: 9780670921287. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3504302

Catalogus: Muziek

Trefwoorden: 9780670921287

AGEYEV, M.

Novel with Cocaine.

NY:: Dutton, 1984. Hardcover. ISBN: 0525242945. Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. First American printing. Very good in a very good (age toning/fading along the spine) dust jacket. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket . International orders are billed at cost: . 00 for a book of average size and weight, more for oversize or heavier volumes

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Boeknummer: 15695

Catalogus: Literature in Translation

Trefwoorden: 0525242945 Russian Literature Translation

M. AGEYEV

Novel with Cocaine

Northwestern University Press. 1991. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1991/Gd. condition/204 pages - This text is a story of adolescent addiction. [KN124251]. Good.

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Boeknummer: 24251

Catalogus: Psychotherapy

Trefwoorden: kids, family, youth, society, learn, parents, rearing, education, therapy, psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy

M. AGEYEV

Novel with Cocaine

E. P. Dutton Publishing. 1984. Hard Cover. Hardcover dj/pub,1984/VG condition/204 pages - Emphasizes the ambiguity of the human soul, continually vacillating between love and cruelty. A story of adolescent addiction. [K411222]. Good.

-- Mike Long BooksProfessionele verkoper

Boeknummer: 11222

Catalogus: Sociology

Trefwoorden: society, politics, ethnology, culture, laws people, civilization, heritage, government, sociology

Byrne, Janet

A Genius for Living: Biography of Frieda Lawrence

VGC. Bloomsbury, 1995. First edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine)with laminated Dj(a couple of creases and nicks on the laminated cover), both in VGC. Ex-Library book with stamp, sticker, writing but in VGC. Illustrated with b/w photos. Nice and clean pages with a couple of small creases, tears and nicks on the edges of the pages, mark on the first blank page of the book. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. 504pp including selected bibliography, notes, index. Price un-clipped. Heavy book. Product Description: This biography defies the conventional portrait of Frieda Lawrence as love goddess and Earth mother, depicting instaed a strong-willed, independent-minded, creative woman who broke every social and sexual taboo of her time. It takes us through Frieda's tumultous life, from her aristocratic Prussian childhood through to her first marriage to a staid English professor in Nottingham, her wild affair with the cocaine-addicted psychoanalyst and free-love advocate Otto Gross, the scandalous abandonment of her husband and three children for the love of a coal miner's son who would become one of the 20th century's greatest novelists, to her years at Mabel Dodge Luhan's artists' colony in Taos, first with Lawrence and then with her third husband, the handsome if hapless Captain Angelino Ravagli. Frieda appeared in every major novel Lawrence wrote during their 18 years together, from The Rainbow to Lady Chatterley's Lover. She was his most trusted reader and she had an anti-intellectual sure-footedness that helped shape one of the most famously embattled unions of the century. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 9780747512844

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Boeknummer: 953

Catalogus: Biographies & Memoirs

Trefwoorden: & : 9780747512844

McCLURE, Michael

The Adept (Typescript)

n.p. [@1970]. First Edition. Hardcover. Typescript of 175 photocopied pages with minor corrections in a black cloth binder of McClure's second and, so far, last novel, "a phantasmagorical adventure story of cocaine and murder." The inside front cover is SIGNED by McClure in block lettering. He's also written his San Francisco address and phone number. He has rather cryptically INSCRIBED it to someone whose name is whited out: "In friendship/for saving/Allen Ginsberg's/The Rise & Fall of America." In 1969 McClure began a collaboration with the legendary singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison, in writing a film script based on this then unpublished novel. The script, titled SAINT NICHOLAS, was completed after many nights of drinking but never published. A couple of pages with some edgewear at the beginning and a few more with a dark ink stain at the outer margin, but generally clean. The binding with expected wear. Very Good McClure gave his first poetry reading at the age of 22 at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first read HOWL. He died in 2020.

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Boeknummer: 019364

Catalogus: Signed

Trefwoorden: Signed, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Beat Literature, Manuscript Signed Modern First Editions Beat Literature Literature: American

PARKER, ROBERT B.

Pale Kings and Princes: A Spenser Novel

New York: Delacorte Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385295383. A signed, stated first printing of the author's thriller, featuring his private investigator character, Spenser. Per the jacket flap, this work is centered around the cocaine trade in central Massachusetts. Signed, in typical Parker fashion, with his initials on half title page. --- In grey paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with titling in gilt on spine. Purplish jacket with cocaine trade imagery on cover and photographic portrait of the author by Jerry Bauer on rear flap. --- With a remainder mark to lower textblock edge, else a clean, bright, newish copy. Unclipped jacket with slight rubbing, else very nice.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (8), 256 pages; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Boeknummer: 81925

Trefwoorden: 0385295383

SATTERTHWAIT, WALTER

The Gold of Mayani the African Stories of Walter Satterthwait

Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 1995. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0914001078. Illustrated by Ernest Franklin. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. Limited to 1000 un-numbered copies. This book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the frontispiece. Included is a foreword by Sarah Caudwell. This book contains a series of short stories including: Conflict of Interests, To Catch a Wizard, The Smoke People, The Motor Coach of Allah, Make No Mistake, and, The Gold of Mayani. "Walter Satterthwait (b. 1946) is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979) , about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers. "; Signed by Author. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Boeknummer: 34442

Catalogus: Mystery

Trefwoorden: 0914001078 Mystery Walter Satterthwait An Andy M'butu Mystery Africa Detectives Police Detectives Ethnic mystery Kenya Mystery Anthology

Scottoline, Lisa

Devil's Corner

Mint condition. Macmillan, 2005. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases, nicks and scratch on the Dj cover), both in mint condition. The book is new with light shelf wear, small ink mark on the outer edge of the pages. 393pp. Price un-clipped. From Publishers Weekly: Scottoline's 12th novel was inspired by a real-life jury trial for crack-cocaine trafficking of members of one of the most violent gangs in Philadelphia history (in her acknowledgments, the former trial lawyer admits she watches cases like these for fun). Such inspiration lends a tough, uncompromising realism to this stand-alone legal thriller. Scottoline (Killer Smile; Dead Ringer; etc. ) sets the book in Philly, of course, and her lead this time is assistant U. S. Attorney Vicki Alegretti, whose petite frame belies her gutsy, unbridled determination on the job. While conducting a routine interview with a confidential informant on a straightforward matter, things go awry, and Vicki's partner--along with the informant--is shot. Resolved to find the killer, Vicki takes on the case (unbeknownst to her boss), and that's when the twists begin. In short chapters with cliffhanger endings, Scottoline spins a tale that finds Vicki joining forces with Reheema, a gorgeous black woman from the drug-ridden West Philly neighborhood of Devil's Corner. Reheema wants to find the person responsible for murdering her crack-addicted mother, and as she and Vicki play detective, they realize the murders may be connected and that they're getting increasingly closer to bringing down a sizable drug ring. Scottoline's ability to mix humor with serious subject matter, combined with her intense research of inner city drug trafficking and a side plot involving Vicki's love life, make for compelling entertainment. As New/As New. ISBN: 9781405032780

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Boeknummer: 646

Catalogus: Literature & Fiction

Trefwoorden: & Devil's 9781405032780

Ben Westhoff

Fentanyl, Inc

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 341. A remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs-from black market drug factories in China to users and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction activists in Europe-which reveals for the first time the next wave of the opioid epidemic A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. "A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape," writes Ben Westhoff. "These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs"-and all-too-often tragically lethal. Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice-and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe- were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the drugs' effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these drugs and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand. Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these drugs emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China's vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the U.S. and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many. ISBN: 9780802127433. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3309759

Catalogus: Sociologie

Trefwoorden: 9780802127433