All Backs Were Turned

by Marek Hlasko
All Backs Were Turned
  • ISBN-13: 9781939931122
  • Author(s): Marek Hlasko
  • Translated by: Tomasz Mirkowicz
  • Subject: Fiction in translation
  • Publisher: New Vessel Press
  • Imprint: New Vessel Press
  • Publication Date: 09-12-2014
  • Format: p/b

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£11.99
In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love, two desperate friends on the edge of the law - one of them tough and gutsy, the other small and scared - travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat to find work. What follows is a story of passion, deception, violence, and betrayal, all conveyed in hardboiled prose reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, with a cinematic style that would make Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando green with envy.
About the book

In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love, two desperate friends on the edge of the law - one of them tough and gutsy, the other small and scared - travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat to find work. What follows is a story of passion, deception, violence, and betrayal, all conveyed in hardboiled prose reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, with a cinematic style that would make Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando green with envy.