Of his three novels - five stars everyone - "The Pistol Poets" is the most blackly humorous - think a more evil Carl Hiaasen - certainly the most imaginative, and probably the best of the bunch. Harold Jenks is a low-level drug dealer in the East St. Louis slums, a dead-ender with a long prison sentence the best outcome of his miserable life/5(37). Of his three novels - five stars everyone - "The Pistol Poets" is the most blackly humorous - think a more evil Carl Hiaasen - certainly the most imaginative, and probably the best of the bunch. Harold Jenks is a low-level drug dealer in the East St. Louis slums, a dead-ender with a long prison sentence the best outcome of his miserable life/5(36). · The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia—with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.’s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he’d rather be: a live poet or a Brand: Random House Publishing Group.
The Pistol Poets by Victor Gischler. Delacorte Press. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia—with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.'s hunt for missing coeds and. Pistol Poets by Victor Gischler. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,
From the ranks of the living come a crazed Pulitzer-winning poet who’s supposed to be in Prague but isn’t, and a small, tough, aging mobster who also writes “poetry on steroids.” Morgan, Jenks, and other picaresque types hook up just in time for the Red Zach gang to ride into town to reclaim the stolen stash and cue the gunfight at the admin building. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.'s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he'd rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal. An unlucky grad student just got himself killed in a robbery gone bad. 'Pistol Poets', his second is an odd disjointed novel, set in an Oklahoma college and mixes, ineffectively, a feckless itinerant teacher of poetry, a young black drug dealer who assumes the identity of a poetry student, several drug bosses, a sleezy private investigator and a handful of meaningless background characters.
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