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Falling Angel (Paperback)

by William Hjortsberg (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: No Exit Press; New edition edition (10 Nov 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1874061599
  • ISBN-13: 978-1874061595
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 250,799 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One of the greatest mysteries ever written - Enjoy, and hold on to your soul. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"One of the greatest mysteries ever written, Falling Angel brilliantly blends the classic noir novel à la Raymond Chandler and the dark fantasy hues of the modern gothic. Stephen King defined it as "The Exorcist rewritten by Raymond Chandler" and that intrigued me. It belongs with Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and Dickens' David Copperfield, or Bleak House, books that present the art of storytelling at its most brilliant and refined. Sometimes it is better the devil you don't know. Enjoy, and hold on to your soul." - Carlos Ruiz Zafon --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Six Stars, 21 Oct 2004
By M. Asher "FRSL" (Kenya) - See all my reviews
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I have read this book five times and seen the film at least as many, but I never grow tired of it. It is a unique and brilliant work. You start of by thinking that you are reading a genre detective story - hard nosed private eye hired to find missing pop singer etc etc. The book gradually opens out into something much, much bigger, until you realise that what we are dealing with here is the very interface of good and evil, and what is at stake is the detective's immortal soul. To go any further would be to spoil the story for those who don't know it.
This is simply the best and most rivetting thriller I have ever read. How I wish I had thought up a story as good as this! It deserves to sell ten million copies. I would give it six stars if I could.
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5.0 out of 5 stars New York private eye meets Voodoo Queen, 31 Mar 1999
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This is a highly enjoyable thriller, in the style of Raymond Chandler/Micky Spillane. Its hero is a hard-boiled (outwardly) New York shamus called Harold Angel, who is unfortunate enough to become embroiled with the Devil and a Voodoo Priestess whilst searching for a missing person. It is a tremendous read - it really carries you on in a breathless fashion, and I read it almost in one sitting. It is a complex story, and I'm looking forward to reading it again - slowly - so I can savour the writing. I thoroughly recommend this book to admirers of Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer et al. Horror story fans would probably get something out of it, too. It has some nightmarish scenes in it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 'Falling Angel' vs 'Angel Heart', 27 May 2008
By C. Young "Clive Young" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Falling Angel (No Exit Press 18 Years Classic) (Paperback)
I wish I'd read the book before seeing Alan Parker's remarkable screen adaptation 'Angel Heart'. The potent imagery of the (fairly faithful) film version casts a long shadow over the source material and the shock of the horrific ending is inevitably spoiled. This is a shame as 'Falling Angel' is itself first-rate, and by the time I was about a third through, I felt the book had managed to re-emerge from the film's influence. Even knowing the denouement perhaps added to the sense of doom and inevitability that pervades the print version. The book concerns a New York gumshoe beginning to realise he is getting ever more deeply involved with dark forces he can barely comprehend, let alone outwit. I enjoyed the spot-on Chandleresque writing, although in the end the tight almost pastiche style seems just to lack the subtlety to deal with the hero's true predicament. The film for example more disturbingly hints at the detective's culpability in the crimes he is investigating. Nevertheless, the book is undoubtedly a hard-boiled classic in its own right.
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