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Crime Studio (Paperback)

by Steve Aylett (Author)
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  • Paperback: 156 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (12 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575402946
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575402942
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 935,057 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Beerlight, the city of all our futures, is not a safe place. Crime - occasionally sophisticated, normally violent, always hilarious in its unintended effects - is the motor of the city's economy. Weaponry, rather than fast cars or designer clothes, is the ultimate status symbol. The cast of hoodlums includes burglar extraordinaire Billy Panacea, Kicker Charlie the casino owner, conman-cum-lawyer Harpoon Specter, Henry Blince the donut-obsessed Chief of Police, Getty Hundred Ram the unwitting bank-robber and other fun-loving felons who hang out at the Delayed Reaction Bar on Valentine Street. The narrator is only referred to as 'the clown' by his fellow criminals, and like all wise jesters, he holds a mirror up to our own world . . .


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Steve Aylett is 36. He lives and works in Brighton. If he were any more English he'd be dead.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome dude (I'm from California), 30 Oct 2001
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This book was brilliant. The prose and the stories are very cool and I suggest this to everyone. Ayletts characters are incredibly original and the world they live in is hilarious. Buy it. Dude.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Cops and robbers…, 5 Dec 2005
By dogbarkssome (England) - See all my reviews
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The Crime Studio – Steve Aylett’s debut book – is a hilariously warped look at a US city where crime runs rampant. Contrary to the publishers description, I would hesitate to call this a novel – there’s certainly nothing resembling any overarching plot or character development here – rather this is a collection of 27 very short stories set in the same locale and featuring the odd recurring character. In Beerlight almost every character seems to be a crook, and the few that aren’t are either corrupt or inept police and lawyers. Each chapter tells a tale of a different misadventure amongst the criminal fraternity, where invariably something goes wrong with hilarious results. Aylett’s prose style is a heady mix of highly compressed inventiveness and bizarre similies (with just a dash of barely restrained street-mime hatred) and the whole thing reads as if Mark Leyner had taken to writing crime fiction. As with Leyner Aylett’s rich writing can become rather wearing after a while, so the fact that this is a very brief book is no bad thing. Recommended.
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