Cockfighter
A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hard-boiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe. His career as a writer began in the late 1940s, but it was his 1972 novel Cockfighter that announced his name to a wider audience. Of that book, Harry Crews said, Charles Willeford renders the sport with such knowledge and attention to detail that...I had the almost inexpressible impression of being on my knees again beside the great fighting pits of the southern circuit.+? Frank Mansfield is the titular cockfighter…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4683-0690-3
- EAN: 9781468306903
- Produktnummer: 30599925
- Verlag: Abrams
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 225 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Charles Willeford (1919-1988) was a highly decorated tank commander with the Third Army in World War II. He was also a professional horse trainer, boxer, radio announcer, and painter. Willeford, the author of twenty novels, created the series featuring Miami detective Hoke Moseley, which includes Miami Blues, New Hope for the Dead, Sideswipe, and The Way We Die Now.
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