Pick-up
collectionID:Sleazy_pulpAlcoholicsFictionFiction, erotica, generalSan francisco (calif.), fiction
4.5
Open LibraryAbout this book
The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters—a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence—trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best: Willeford’s preferred title for the book was Until I Am Dead. Its bleak vision of life beyond the edge is haunted by rape, racism, alcoholism, suicide, and inescapable poverty, yet shot through with a tenderness and compassion sustained against all odds in a society offering few breaks to its outcasts and misfits.
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collectionID:Sleazy_pulpAlcoholicsFictionFiction, erotica, generalSan francisco (calif.), fictionMan-woman relationships, fiction
Setting
San Francisco1950's
About the author
Charles Ray Willeford
2 Jan 1919 – 27 Mar 1988
Charles Willeford wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career. He was born as Charles Ray Willeford III on January 2, 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Willeford's parents both died of tuberculosis when he was a little boy and he subsequently lived either with his grandmother or at boarding schools. Charles became a hobo in his early teens. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at age sixteen and was stationed in the Philippines. Willeford served as a tank commander with the 10th Armored Division in Europe during World War II. He won several medals for his military service: the Silver Star, the Bronze Star,…
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