Web Of The City - Softcover

Ellison, Harlan

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441877184 ISBN 13: 9780441877188

Publisher: Ace, 1983

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Harlan Ellison was awarded an honorary degree from UCLA for the excellence of his imaginative writings. Some smartass might even call him "Dr." Ellison. But only once. Because even though Ellison has come a long way since he started writing in the Fifties, he's still the street fighter who assumed a phony name and joined The Barons, the toughest gang of juvenile delinquents in Brooklyn's Red Hook area, just so he could write a novel about life in the slums. The real-life story of those ten weeks in hell was published as MEMOS FROM PURGATORY. But the actual novel that came out of that period has been out-of-print for quite some time. Now, with its original title restored, e-reads is pleased to re-issue WEB OF THE CITY, the book by a streetwise "Dr." who risked his tail and talent to write about the dark underbelly of city life. "Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read." --Pete Hamill "Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination." --Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint

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About the Author:

Harlan Ellison is a pop culture legend now fully entered in the Encyclopedia Britannica. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1934. He has written over 1,700 stories, essays, and newspaper columns, more than 70 books, and 100 films and TV episodes, and has won countless awards. He has written stories in bookshop windows, toured with the Rolling Stones, and worked as a voice-over artist. He now lives with his wife in Los Angeles.

Review:

''Harlan Ellison is arguably the finest short story writer in science fiction today.'' --AudioFile, praise for the author

''It's hard to fathom that one of the most illustrious speculative-fiction writing careers in addition to ten Hugos, Ellison has won so many other awards that even he probably can't remember half of them launched with this gangbanger tale in 1958. Ellison based the action on his own experiences in a Brooklyn gang. Along with Web, the volume includes three related gang stories No Game for Children, Stand Still and Die, and No Way Out. More fodder for the argument that Ellison may have pioneered what we now call street lit. Classic cover art on this one, too.'' -- Library Journal

''Take a look at Web of the City, you will be glad you did.'' --Crimezine

''Hard Case has done an amazing job repackaging Web of the City with three additional tales of violence and dread.'' --Bibliodiscoteque

''It's a great read itself and even more fascinating when looked upon in the context of Ellison's hugely influential career.'' --Ain 't It Cool Holiday Gift Guide

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