LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gerald kersh

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  • Nightshade and Damnations (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Gerald Kersh
    An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th-century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to lear...
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    25,45 €

  • Neither Man Nor Dog (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Gerald Kersh
    This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald Kersh. Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, including the noir classic Night and the City (1938) and Fowlers End (1957), which Anthony Burgess called 'one of the great comic no...
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    22,71 €

  • The Great Wash (original U.S. title
    Gerald Kersh
    'An extravaganza . . . fertile invention and forceful style . . . Mr. Kersh’s many admirers will undoubtedly devour this highly flavoured hotch-potch with avidity.' - Julian Maclaren-Ross, Sunday Times'[F]irst-rate Kersh, richly peopled with the odd bit roles he sketches so well and written with style and individuality.' - Anthony Boucher, New York Herald Tribune'Sometimes funn...
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    25,22 €

  • Clock Without Hands (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Gerald Kersh
    'How easy Mr. Kersh makes it all seem! How admirably he sets the scene, the atmosphere . . . very neatly done.' - The Observer'Three short, rough novels, hard-hitting, battering the emotions without compunction . . . Kersh tells a story, as such, rather better than anybody else.' - Pamela Hansford Johnson, Daily TelegraphBest known for his gritty novels of London life and his w...
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    22,67 €

  • On an Odd Note (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Gerald Kersh
    The discovery of piles of bones seeming to belong to a previously unknown species of monster will help to unfold a macabre and grisly tale. - A lady is found dead in her bed, the apparent victim of a murder the coroner proves could not possibly have occurred. - A merman found by fishermen off the coast of Brighton in 1745 will reveal the truth behind one of the most terrible ev...
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    21,69 €

  • Fowlers End
    Gerald Kersh
    'One of the great comic novels of the century.' - Anthony Burgess'[A]n exuberant romp with a parcel of grotesques in a truly horrible nor’-nor’-easterly suburb of London . . . great fun.' - Manchester Guardian'Rabelaisian, vigorous, readable, inventive and bizarre.' - Simon Raven'The very best of his works.' - Harlan EllisonIn the worst, poorest, most benighted corner of London...
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    24,94 €