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GCDS-9780872864023 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100822880 02 0872864022 03 9780872864023 15 9780872864023 BC 01 306 1 A01 Manchette, Jean-Patrick Jean-Patrick Manchette <p>Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) rescued the French crime novel from the grip of stodgy police procedurals, restoring the noir edge by virtue of his post-1968 leftism. Today, Manchette is a totem to the generation of French mystery writers who came in his wake. Jazz saxophonist, political activist, and screen writer, Manchette was influenced as much by Guy Debord as by Gustave Flaubert.</p> 2 B06 Brook, James James Brook James Brook is a poet and the principal editor of <em>Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information</em> (City Lights) and the translator of many works, including <em>My Tired Father</em> by Gellu Naum and <em>Panegyric</em> by Guy Debord 01 eng 180 01 <P>Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession! But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman must assume the prone shooting position. A tour de force, this violent tale shatters as many illusions about life and politics as bodies.</p><P><strong>Jean-Patrick Manchette</strong> (1942-1995) rescued the French crime novel from the grip of stodgy police procedurals, restoring the noir edge by virtue of his post-1968 leftism. Manchette is a totem to a generation of French mystery writers, and his stories have inspired several films, including Claude Chabrol's <em>Nada</em>.</p><P>Also Available by Jean-Patrick Manchette<br /><em>Three to Kill</em><br />TP $13.95, 0-87286-395-6 <bu> CUSA</bu></p> 02 Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession! But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the... 08 "For the first time readers can experience in English translation the masterful thriller considered Manchette's finest, proof positive that the French knew what they were talking about when they labeled this sort of novel 'noir'." Starred Review in Publishers Weekly 08 "In France, which long ago embraced American crime fiction, thrillers are referred to 'polars.' And in France the godfather and wizard of polars is Jean-Patrick Manchette.... For Manchette and his generation of writers who followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that are the society's true engines." The Boston Globe 08 "There's not a superfluous word or overdone effect in The Prone Gunman, one of the last cool, compact and shockingly original crime novels Manchette left as his legacy to modern noir fiction." The New York Times Book Review 08 "This superbly muscular translation of the late French mystery writer Jean-Patrick Manchette's most celebrated work, The Prone Gunman, is the third volume issued [by] City Lights Noir. The series may prove to be the most needed contribution to contemporary fiction by any publisher in a good long while." The San Francisco Chronicle 08 "For the first time, readers can experience in English translation the masterful thriller considered Manchette's finest, proof positive that the French knew what they were talking about when they labeled this sort of novel 'noir'." Starred Review in Publishers Weekly 08 "Manchette describes his characters with the same wealth of external detail, icily delivered, that he uses for apartment decor or a hi-fi system." The Village Voice 08 "This is lean, mean noir fiction that cleverly sends up the tough guy genre while incarnating it perfectly." Detroit Free Press 08 "Jean-Patrick Manchette, the French novelist who died in 1995, is no stereotypical thriller writer. His world is external, all action and scheduling, like some off-kilter 'Mission: Impossible' episode. English-language fans of thrillers should be grateful to have more of him." The Wall Street Journal 08 "The Prone Gunman ... demonstrates Manchette's perfect mastery." Robert Deleuse, Brief History of the French Crime Novel 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100822880/images/87286100822880L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100822880/images/87286100822880S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100822880 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20020601 01 7.25 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20020601 01 02 13.95 USD