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Loading... All Backs Were Turnedby Marek HÅ‚asko
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HTML: In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love, two desperate friends on the edge of the lawâ??one of them tough and gutsy, the other small and scaredâ??travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat to find work. There, Dov Ben Dov, the handsome native Israeli with a reputation for causing trouble, and Israel, his sidekick, stay with Ben Dov's recently married younger brother, Little Dov, who has enough trouble of his own. Local toughs are encroaching on Little Dov's business, and he enlists his older brother to drive them away. It doesn't help that a beautiful German widow named Ursula is rooming next door. 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 Bogart and Brando green with envy.The novel features a critical introduction by George Z. Gasyna, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois. Gasyna has written extensively on 20th century Polish literature, exile and immigration, and Jewish-Polish relations. He is currently writing a book about modern Polish borderland literature No library descriptions found. |
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