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Although best known today for his singular, stunning "anti-novels" dazzlingly conjured from anecdotes, quotes, and small thoughts, in his early days David Markson paid the rent by writing punchy, highly dramatic fictions. On the heels of a new double edition of his steamy noirs "Epitaph for a Tramp" and "Epitaph for a Deadbeat" comes a new edition of his 1965 classic "The Ballad of Dingus Magee, " whose subtitle -- "Immortal True Saga of the Most Notorious and Desperate Bad Man of the Olden Days, his Blood-Shedding, his Ruination of Poor Helpless Females, & Cetera" -- gives readers a hint of the raucous sensibility at work here. Brimming with blasphemy, bullets, and bordellos, this hilarious tale, which inspired the Frank Sinatra movie "Dirty Dingus McGee, " shows the early Markson at his outrageous best, taking down, as "Playboy" put it, "the breeches of the Old West and blast[ing] what's exposed with buckshot."

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Book category Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Ballad of Dingus Magee
• Author: David Markson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781582434100
• ISBN: 1582434107
• ID: 04234408
• Publisher: TURNAROUND PUBLISHER SERVICES
• Weight: 170 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 116 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2008

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