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In this new collection of short stories, vignettes, and autobiographical sketches - many previously unpublished - Charles Willeford, author of Miami Blues and The Burnt Orange Heresy creates a mosaic of the absurdities of life in the 20th century. From a malicious grandmother to prophetic depictions of the power of reality television, with his wry humor and sudden shifts to violence, he seduces, amuses, and repeatedly surprises you.
"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford". (Elmore Leonard)
©2003 Betsy Willeford (P)2020 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Writing & Other Blood Sports
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Charles Willeford was a man of letters in all senses of the word. Poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and raconteur, his early paperback novels with their existential/immobilized heroes were the creations (to paraphrase Chandler) of a man not himself immobilized - a man who, instead, with his trademark black-humored prose, doggedly examined the mind-thrumming banalities of our materially sated but intellectually befuddled postwar world, crafting a body of work that is only now, 50-some years after his first appearance in print, beginning to be widely appreciated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved The Immobilized Hero
- De Rich S. en 07-05-21
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The Black Mass of Brother Springer
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5
The Black Mass of Brother Springer tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement...and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita.
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Deliver Me from Dallas
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer, Roger Wayne, A.T Chandler, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another wild Willeford
- De GioSailor en 03-18-25
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Made in Miami
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Art student Ralph Tone is working in Miami as a bellboy. He meets Hollywood hopeful Maria Duigan and falls head over heels for the ambitious beauty. As Ralph fuels his obsession by booze, pills, and lack of sleep, they both quickly become entangled with sleazy pornographer Donald McKay.
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The Woman Chaser
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used-car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting structure to a noir
- De Darryl en 05-11-23
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Something About a Soldier
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Dan McGowan
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
This funny, rich, raunchy autobiography re-creates the adventures of a very young soldier in the US Army at the height of the Depression. Charles Willeford was 16 in 1935 when he signed up and was sent to the Philippines. And the Philippines of those days was like a place out of another century. Willeford’s job was to fuel aircraft whose pilots treated him and his buddies almost like slaves. At night, however, he was a lord, fully exploring a great, timeless, and sensual city with a multitude of women available - even on a private’s pay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A window into a writers past
- De Maracapozzi en 04-29-23
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Writing & Other Blood Sports
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Charles Willeford was a man of letters in all senses of the word. Poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and raconteur, his early paperback novels with their existential/immobilized heroes were the creations (to paraphrase Chandler) of a man not himself immobilized - a man who, instead, with his trademark black-humored prose, doggedly examined the mind-thrumming banalities of our materially sated but intellectually befuddled postwar world, crafting a body of work that is only now, 50-some years after his first appearance in print, beginning to be widely appreciated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved The Immobilized Hero
- De Rich S. en 07-05-21
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The Black Mass of Brother Springer
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5
The Black Mass of Brother Springer tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement...and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita.
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Deliver Me from Dallas
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer, Roger Wayne, A.T Chandler, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another wild Willeford
- De GioSailor en 03-18-25
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Made in Miami
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Art student Ralph Tone is working in Miami as a bellboy. He meets Hollywood hopeful Maria Duigan and falls head over heels for the ambitious beauty. As Ralph fuels his obsession by booze, pills, and lack of sleep, they both quickly become entangled with sleazy pornographer Donald McKay.
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The Woman Chaser
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used-car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting structure to a noir
- De Darryl en 05-11-23
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Something About a Soldier
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Dan McGowan
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
This funny, rich, raunchy autobiography re-creates the adventures of a very young soldier in the US Army at the height of the Depression. Charles Willeford was 16 in 1935 when he signed up and was sent to the Philippines. And the Philippines of those days was like a place out of another century. Willeford’s job was to fuel aircraft whose pilots treated him and his buddies almost like slaves. At night, however, he was a lord, fully exploring a great, timeless, and sensual city with a multitude of women available - even on a private’s pay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A window into a writers past
- De Maracapozzi en 04-29-23
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Kiss Your Ass Goodbye
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In this classic Miami crime story and thriller, from the writer acclaimed for his Hoke Moseley novels, a man's life is threatened when he discovers his new lover is married.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great fun, but already in Shark Infested Custard
- De GioSailor en 03-17-25
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High Priest of California
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced. Russell Haxby is a ruthless used-car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue, and lust set in San Francisco in the early '50s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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thoroughly unpleasant classic willeford
- De Alex halladay en 06-08-23
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Understudy for Death
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 4
Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out - and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.
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The Machine in Ward Eleven
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
This reissue of Willeford's 1963 pulp classic is a timely reminder that madness is truly the dark heart of politics. Written at a time when people still had faith in their elected leaders, Willeford's book laid bare the American dream. There is an almost Chekhovian wistfulness in the treatment of his stories, which belies their considerable - and still relevant - impact.
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Miami Blues
- Hoke Moseley, Book 1
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 343
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious Eldorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn't think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over 10 years of cases, wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Proof it can be done!
- De LadySpeaker en 10-07-15
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The Difference
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Charlie Kevin
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Set against the sweeping panorama of Arizona circa 1880, this work has many of the surface trappings of a standard western. However, from the first shocking realization that the line between good and evil is being overstepped, the author then begins to dismantle the American cowboy myth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very good
- De Danny en 02-14-25
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The Shark-Infested Custard
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Mike Carnes, Dan Bitner, Josh Goodman, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
Larry Dolman is a rather literal-minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who's separated from his wife, but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys. When a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings - and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wild times back in Florida
- De GioSailor en 09-21-24
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Pick-Up
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Benjamin Charles
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters - a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence - trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of CWs best
- De Vincent en 10-31-21
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Wild Wives
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Jake Blake is a private detective short on cash when he meets a rich and beautiful young woman looking to escape her father’s smothering influence. Unfortunately for Jake, the smothering influence includes two thugs hired to protect her - and the woman is in fact not the daughter of the man she wants to escape, but his wife. Now Jake has two angry thugs and one jealous husband on his case. As Jake becomes more deeply involved with this glamorous and possibly crazy woman, he becomes entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue - and multiple murders.
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3 out of 5 stars
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👍good
- De Danny en 03-10-21
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Cockfighter
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Jim Steele
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford is best known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hard-boiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe. Of Cockfighter, Harry Crews said, “Charles Willeford renders the sport with such knowledge and attention to detail that...had the almost inexpressible impression of being on my knees again beside the great fighting pits of the southern circuit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Author, Great Story
- De Paraskevi en 01-06-21
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I Was Looking for a Street
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Dan McGowan
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:2 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
I Was Looking for a Street tells the story of the author's childhood and adolescence as an orphan, as he moves from railroad yards to hobo tent cities, to soup kitchens and deserts around Los Angeles and across the United States. The ensuing tale is at once a picaresque adventure through Depression-era America and a portrait of the writer as a young man of seemingly little promise but great spirit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Willeford work, underwhelming narrator
- De James Broucek en 10-28-23
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The Burnt Orange Heresy
- A Novel
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, and beyond - to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living - and most reclusive - artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality's limits to a bigger payoff?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Portrait of an Artist as a Immobilized Hero
- De Rich S. en 07-05-21