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Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale
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19 Jun 2023 - 18 Jul 2023
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Prizes: Print (1 copy), Digital (3 copies) — Available in Canada and United States
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fiction
crime
short stories
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
336 pages | first published 2023
Prizes: Print (1 copy), Digital (3 copies) — Available in Canada and United States
fiction
crime
short stories
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
336 pages | first published 2023
We're giving away 1 physical copy (US only) and 3 digital copies (US and Canada only) of THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIME STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE.
“A potent blend of stories from one of the all-time greats, Things Get Ugly is the kind of collection you never want to end—as it shows the versatility and command of the craft only a legend like Lansdale can execute. There’s a reason Lansdale is among the greatest, and this book showcases his knack for shady characters, rural noir, and an innate ability to get to the heart of what drives us all. A can’t-miss book.”
—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity
—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity
“Wildly entertaining, binge-worthy, and a total escape from hum drum reality, Things Get Ugly is pure Joe Lansdale on terrific display. In this collection of his greatest crime fiction stories, Lansdale’s scalpel-sharp wit and prose will have you cackling one minute while it chills you to the bone the next. A rollicking, sometimes haunted trip through his piney-woods soaked noir landscape, Things Get Ugly confirms that Joe Lansdale is to crime fiction what Willie Nelson is to country music: wholly original, genre-defying, raw, gritty, soulful, and lastly, timeless. I could not put this book down!”
—May Cobb, author of The Hunting Wives
—May Cobb, author of The Hunting Wives
“Lansdale’s writing hits like a brass-knuckled punch to the face: Hard and nasty and visceral. This collection of nineteen ugly stories shows the master of the crime thriller at the height of his formidable powers.”
—Marc Guggenheim, creator of Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow
—Marc Guggenheim, creator of Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow
“The spiritual heir to both Walt Whitman and Elmore Leonard, Joe R. Lansdale is the bard who sings America: in gem-hard, polished prose that never lets up, no matter how ugly things get. As they do indeed in the seminal retrospective that is Things Get Ugly, where vicious people do vicious things to each other beautifully. It should stand next to Leonard’s Three-Ten to Yuma as a remarkable testament to the power of short fiction.”
—Lavie Tidhar, author of Central Station and Neom
“Things Get Ugly is packed page by page with writing lessons for both beginners and old pros hoping to improve: Get right to it. Keep it moving by surprising. Trust the English language to observe as closely as Joe’s line, ‘thin and flexible as a feather.’ The man can write.”
—Justin Scott, author of the Ben Abbott mysteries
—Lavie Tidhar, author of Central Station and Neom
“Things Get Ugly is packed page by page with writing lessons for both beginners and old pros hoping to improve: Get right to it. Keep it moving by surprising. Trust the English language to observe as closely as Joe’s line, ‘thin and flexible as a feather.’ The man can write.”
—Justin Scott, author of the Ben Abbott mysteries
“If there is a writer with a more distinct voice, I don’t know them. When Lansdale turns his pen to crime stories you get his signature wild imagination, humor as dark as the bottom of a well and characters who live and breathe (the ones who make it out alive, anyway). Selected from across his epic career, Things Get Ugly burns like backwoods moonshine going down. A best of Joe R. Lansdale is a best of the genre—full stop.”
—Eric Beetner, author of There and Back
—Eric Beetner, author of There and Back
Book description
Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series), one of America's most essential crime writers, heads back to the dangerous woods of East Texas. In his first crime career-retrospective, including previously u...Prizes
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