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Kit Reed
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The Baby Merchant (Literature & Fiction)
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“Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?”
― Kit Reed, Thinner Than Thou
― Kit Reed, Thinner Than Thou
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Hi Kit,Any admirer of Graham Greene's better stuff (Brightpn Rock, The Third Man, etc), and William Faulkner is fine by me. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Evelyn Waugh are more my better half's taste but no matter - I recently helped my daughter with a University paper on the relationship of Greene and Waugh at Baliol.
If you're familiar with the literary feud between Greene and George Orwell (now there's a literary hero!) you might be interested in my novel, THE LAST MAN OUT OF EUROPE. This reinterprets Orwell's 1984 as a noir thriller set in London and Vietnam, also owes something to THE GUIET AMERICAN and casts Greene as a villain in an alternative history. It's available on http://www.lulu.com/content/2557400 and the ISBN is ISBN 978-1-4092-0457-2.
Hopefully my sojourn into slef publsihing is coming to an end as I have a pucker publisher putting out ENEMY WITHIN in April. It's a retrospective crime thriller set during the 1094 miners strike. If you like James Ellroy, Jake Arnott and David Peace it may be up your street.
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Hi Kit, I've added Thinner Than Thou, The Baby Merchant, Other Stories and the Attack of the Giant Baby, @expctations and your other book Dogs of Truth to my to-read list."
Daniel wrote: "
Hi Kit, I've added Thinner Than Thou, The Baby Merchant, Other Stories and the Attack of the Giant Baby, @expctations and your other book Dogs of Truth to my to-read list."
Boy, did I pick this up late! Four years late! There have been new books since then, two big ones coming up in the States this March, 2013; the novel is SON OF DESTRUCTION (UK 2012) from Severn House, the collection, THE STORY UNTIL NOW; A Great Big Book of Stories, from the Wesleyan Press. If you're still reading me, do look for them!