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"No
one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford."
Elmore Leonard
"Quirky is the word that always comes to mind.
Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters,
and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard
for what anyone else thought." Lawrence Block
"All
of Charles Willeford's writing is marked by the unusual:
devious plots, dialogue rich in innuendo, eccentric
detailing of even the smallest roles, wry touches of
perversity, sardonicism, plus an overall no-nonsense
truth to chacracter."
Andrea Juno and V. Vale
"I'm
not really breaking the genre, just bending it a bit."
Charles Willeford
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"A
fast, tough tale..." John Updike
"Unusual,
gripping, menacing." The New York Times
"Action
and adventure up there with the best...painfully realistic...A
novel easy to read, but difficult to forget." Los
Angeles Times
"Taut...tight...a
gripping piece of work!" NYT Review of Books
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Leena Krohn
has written poetry, children's books, novels, fables,
short stories, essays and texts that combine all the
aforementioned genres with the possibilities of science
and fantasy. In Krohn's production, fable-like contents
serve philosophic and metaphysical ends, while on the
other hand its scientific aspects may be viewed jointly
as a subgenre of fantasy and fable.
The forthcoming
novel TAINARON: Mail
From Another City
consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea
from a city of insects. Nominated for the prestigious
Finlandia Prize, this is a wonderfilled introduction
to the work of this modern fabulist.
Her other
novels have include Umbra
(1990), which has as its protagonist a doctor
who accepts perfectly ordinary and thoroughly unusual
patients into his Burnt-out Aid Clinic while compiling
a burgeoning archive of paradoxes. The Finlandia Prize-winning
Matemaattisia olioita
(1992; Mathematical Beings)
creates a new genre, the essay novel, an intensive investigation
of human identity and the basis of choice. Her collection
of essays Kynä ja kone (1996;
The Pen and the Machine)
is a meditation on age-old issues - art, philosophy,
physics, morals - and their chances and application
in an increasingly technological world. Pereat
mundus (1999) is a 'novel' constructed of
miniature prose pieces devoted to the philosophy and
fear of ending: the end of the world, the millennium,
humanity, nature, employment, literature, play, love...
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