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Indlæser... The deadly streets (udgave 1983)af Harlan Ellison
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. HE can put himself in the mind of a New York street kid with violent tendencies very easily. This is a collection that first saw the book racks as an Ace paperback in 1958. It sold for 35 cents. When you couple it with "The Last Exit to Brooklyn", you have the canon as regards pre-druglord gang life. The prose is excellent, and the images it leaves you with are vivid. A set of very minor 1950s stories from Ellison, published in various less than stellar detective magazines, and even in a Men's magazine, some under pseudonyms, and a couple co-written with Robert Silverberg and Henry Slesar. The subject matter is almost invariably doomed young gang members, with a few welcome variations. While this isn't a collection to read one story after another, it is enjoyable. It is a lot more straightforward than the science fiction that made Ellison a household name (at least among science fiction writers.) This book is the work of a professional writer, churning out story after story as quickly as he could to make a living. It is a mark of Ellison's ability that despite their simplicity, there is hardly a false note or a bad sentence in the collection. Ellison's new introduction makes more of the stories than they are - but it is quite interesting. Written in 1983 when New York City was much more crime-ridden than in the era (1958) when The Deadly Streets was first published, it is an angry, overdone exercise in paranoia and catharsis. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Terrifying tales of teenage gangs and life on the mean streets from the multiple award-winning author of A Boy and His Dog. Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from 1955 to now. And something the author of these stories knows that you are scared to admit is that reality and fantasy have flip‑flopped. They have switched places. The stories that scare you today are the ones about rapists and thugs, psychos who will carve you for a dollar and hypes who will bust your head to get fixed. Glenn Ford's world was yesterday, and Bronson's is today. And in the stalking midnight of this book, one of America's top writers, Harlan Ellison, invades the shadows of both! No library descriptions found. |
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The first edition of The Deadly Streets was released in 1958 and contained 11 hard-boiled tales about teenage street gangs. The book was re-released in 1975 with an additional five crime stories, some written in collaboration with other writers including “Ship-Shape Pay-Off” with Robert Silverberg and “Sob Story” Henry Slesar.
What sets these additional five stories apart from the original 11 is that they are much shorter and completely unrelated to the theme of teenage street gangs. Rather, they tend to focus on mob hits (“The Man with the Golden Tongue”), revenge (“Rat Hater”, “Hippie Slayer”) and personal vendettas (the aforementioned “Ship-Shape Pay-Off”). “Sob Story” is the weakest of the lot and barely qualifies
My personal favorites from the collection include “We Take Care of our Dead,” “The Man with the Golden Tongue,” “Johnny Slice’s Stoolie,” “Buy Me That Blade,” “Hippie Slayer,” “With a Knife in Her Hand,” “Dead Shot,” and “Students of the Assassin.”
Although the slang is outdated and the depictions of violence mild by today’s standards, each of the original 11 tales present a vivid snapshot of the bloody and ruthless street gang culture of 1950s New York. ( )