- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (21 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006552242
- ISBN-13: 978-0006552246
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,800,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Rawley has an uncanny knack for making the bizarre beautiful and for capturing the pathos and peculiar dignity of characters who wouldn’t normally command respect. He achieves an emotional and tonal range that’s extremely impressive.’
Christina Patterson, Observer
‘Hollywood… is the setting for these vital, explosive short stories. Rawley’s characters live life on the edge, from True Romance-style, drug-fuelled teenagers to faded Twenties starlets, living alone. Norma Desmond-like, in their decaying mansions. Rawley’s language is lush – he’s an acclaimed poet – and every word is made to count. Essential reading.’
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‘Rawley writes prose with real poetry in it’
Scott Bradfield, Mail on Sunday
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A noirish Hollywood murder mystery, from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line
A Hollywood screenwriter is brought to write up the grisly murder of a middle-aged, unmarried, unremarkable movie studio secretary whose vile demise is scarcely in keeping with her life…
Vulgar B-movie producers, druggie airhead pin-ups, fading celebs, Hollywood wives, vicious latino maids, laconic huslters – all are here, in abundance.
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11 July 2007
Format:Paperback
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When a quiet young woman is murdered with awful precision in her quiet, anonymous Hollywood apartment, it comes as no surprise that within a matter of hours her relatives are contacted, a film deal is struck and a screenplay commissioned. For sensitive journeyman writer Samuel Johnson, it is the chance to finally make a mark, to work with successful producer Sol Seagull and contribute, in a small way, to the Hollywood dream.
But in taking the job, Samuel finds himself reluctantly drawn into a twilight world where all the cliches ring true: where vulgar B-move stars spend their afternoon in a haze of tequila... and where the only person who seems to have cared about a plain, overweight office worker is her murderer.
The End of Miss Kind is a lovely, lyrical, noirish Hollywood murder mystery, the best - and last - work from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line.
When a quiet young woman is murdered with awful precision in her quiet, anonymous Hollywood apartment, it comes as no surprise that within a matter of hours her relatives are contacted, a film deal is struck and a screenplay commissioned. For sensitive journeyman writer Samuel Johnson, it is the chance to finally make a mark, to work with successful producer Sol Seagull and contribute, in a small way, to the Hollywood dream.
But in taking the job, Samuel finds himself reluctantly drawn into a twilight world where all the cliches ring true: where vulgar B-move stars spend their afternoon in a haze of tequila... and where the only person who seems to have cared about a plain, overweight office worker is her murderer.
The End of Miss Kind is a lovely, lyrical, noirish Hollywood murder mystery, the best - and last - work from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I loved the book, loaned it, and lost it.
8 Jan 2009
Format:Paperback
Three years ago I found a used copy of the British publication of Miss Kind in Pattaya, Thailand. I've read it five times and enjoyed it more each time. Unfortunately, I sent it to a dear friend who hated it.
At the time I was disappointed to find no mention of Miss Kind on amazon.com. I'm glad Rawley's books, including the excellent Night Bird Cantata, are now available in America.
Rawley was on the way to becoming a great writer. Unfortunately, he never found a good editor or proofreader, but at least he got published before he died young.
At the time I was disappointed to find no mention of Miss Kind on amazon.com. I'm glad Rawley's books, including the excellent Night Bird Cantata, are now available in America.
Rawley was on the way to becoming a great writer. Unfortunately, he never found a good editor or proofreader, but at least he got published before he died young.
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