Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg

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Original Title: Falling Angel

ISBN: 1933618086
ISBN13: 9781933618081
Autor: William Hjortsberg/Ridley Scott (Foreword by)/ James Crumley (Introduction)
Rating: 4.2 of 5 stars (678) counts
Original Format: Hardcover, 302 pages
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Published: November 1st 2006 / by Millipede Press / (first published 1978)
Language: English
Genre(s):
Horror- 175 users
Mystery- 61 users
Fiction- 61 users
Thriller- 29 users
Mystery >Crime- 28 users
Mystery >Noir- 26 users

Description:

A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York
private eye against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced. For Harry Angel, a
routine missing-persons case soon turns into a fiendish nightmare of voodoo and black magic, of
dizzying peril and violent death. Many people feel that Falling Angel is the greatest American
supernatural horror novel of the 20th century.

With a new foreword by Ridley Scott, an introduction by the late James Crumley, and a new
afterword by the author and a bonus short story, plus a letter from Stephen King, the first time that
the letter has ever been published in its complete form.

The hardcover edition is limited to just 300 copies and is signed by William Hjortsberg. Bound in
cloth with a dustjacket with the original Stanislaw Zagorski wraparound dustjacket printed against
a black background with spot varnish.

About Author:

William Hjortsberg (b. 1941) is an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York
City, he attended college at Dartmouth and spent a year at the Yale School of Drama before
leaving to become a writer. For the next few years he lived in the Caribbean and Europe, writing
two unpublished novels, the second of which earned him a creative writing fellowship at Stanford
University.
When his fellowship ended in 1968, Hjortsberg was discouraged, still unpublished, and making
ends meet as a grocery store stock boy. No longer believing he could make a living as a novelist,
he began writing strictly for his own amusement. The result was Alp (1969), an absurd story of an
Alpine skiing village which Hjortsbergs friend Thomas McGuane called, quite possibly the finest
comic novel written in America.
In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction works: Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography
(1973). The first, a novel about human brains kept alive by science, was inspired by an off-the-cuff
remark Hjortsberg made at a cocktail party. The second, a post-apocalyptic tale of a man who
creates dreams, was later published in condensed form in Penthouse.
After publishing Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting, Hjortsberg
wrote his best-known novel, Falling Angel (1978). This hard-boiled detective story with an occult
twist was adapted for the screen as Angel Heart (1987), starring Robert De Niro. Hjortsberg also
wrote the screenplay for Legend (1986), a dark fairy tale directed by Ridley Scott. In addition to
being nominated for an Edgar Award for Falling Angel, Hjortsberg has won two Playboy Editorial
Awards, for which he beat out Graham Greene and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garca Mrquez.
His most recent work is Jubilee Hitchhiker (2012), a biography of author Richard Brautigan.
Hjortsberg lives with his family in Montana.
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Other Editions:

- Falling Angel: A Novel (Kindle Edition)

- Falling Angel (Paperback)

- Angel Heart (Paperback)

- Falling Angel (Paperback)

- Falling Angel (Paperback)

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- Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

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- Gray Matters
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Rewiews:
Sep 26, 2015
Delee
Rated it: it was amazing
Shelves: supernatural-or-paranormal, nyc, own, reviewed, detective, ivonne-is-a-big-chicken,
mystery-noir

Vooooodoooo...hard boiled detective mystery, and twisted loooooooove.

Thanks Jeff- just what I was in the mood for.

FALLING ANGEL...the 2nd novel I have read this month that Mickey Rourke stared in the
movie...but this time, the book was sooooooooooooooo much better than the film...and it has
nothing to do with the fact that Mickey is cuter in Nine and a Half Weeks- I swear.

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New York City 1959

Private investigator- Harry Angel is hired by mysterious client- Louis Cyphre to find Johnny F

Vooooodoooo...hard boiled detective mystery, and twisted loooooooove.

Thanks Jeff- just what I was in the mood for.

FALLING ANGEL...the 2nd novel I have read this month that Mickey Rourke stared in the
movie...but this time, the book was sooooooooooooooo much better than the film...and it has
nothing to do with the fact that Mickey is cuter in Nine and a Half Weeks- I swear.
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New York City 1959

Private investigator- Harry Angel is hired by mysterious client- Louis Cyphre to find Johnny
Favorite- a crooner injured during WWII and possibly living in an old folks home....or is he?

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Harry fails to abide by a number one rule...never trust a man with long finger nails. Just don't do
it!!! Men with long finger nails alllllllllways = bad news.

...but Harry takes the case anyways- and follows a trail leading to Johnny. Soon he is in waaaay
over his head- dealing with things waaaay out of his comfort zone.
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This book was EXACTLY what I was looking for, at EXACTLY the right time- Willian Hjortsberg is
definitely an author I am going to read again. I just hope his next book bloooooooows me away
like this one did.
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