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A Time For Violence: Stories with an Edge Kindle Edition
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Throughout the years countless wordsmiths have produced their own story collections, but the book you are now holding is a love letter to the great anthologies of yesteryear, assembling stories by a variety of talents, packaged neatly and often connected by a singular theme.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date1 May 2019
- File size831 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B07N94MLQL
- Publisher : Close To The Bone (1 May 2019)
- Language : English
- File size : 831 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 268 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1795546905
- Best Sellers Rank: 342,455 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 1,017 in Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- 2,982 in Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- 6,009 in Short Stories (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Andrew Nette is an author of fiction and non-fiction, pulp scholar and lover of all things noir.
He is the author of two novels, Ghost Money, a crime story set in Cambodia in the mid-nineties, and the heist thriller, Gunshine State.
He is co-editor of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys & Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction & Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, and Sticking it to the Man:Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1956 to 1980, forthcoming in 2019.
He has also written a monograph about Norman Jewison’s 1975 dystopian classic, Rollerball, to be released by independent UK film and media studies publisher, Auteur, in 2018.
His short fiction has appeared in a number of print publications, including The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir (Three Rooms Press, 2017), Crime Scenes, an anthology of Australian crime fiction (Spineless Wonders, 2016), and Phnom Penh Noir (Heaven Lake Press, 2012).
His online home is www.pulpcurry.com or you can follow him on Twitter @Pulpcurry
Howdy there. Welcome to my Amazon home. It's creepy, but I like it. If you aren't in the know, I'm a writer type that used to act, do stand up comedy and sometimes wrestle professionally. I teach college as well, so be afraid for the future. David Hayes Online (davidchayes.com) is where all the updates, news and other fun stuff will be as well as a virtual resume with photos, posters, trailers and more. Click around. Have a good time; try not to leave a mess.
"Hayes is fast establishing himself as the new top-drawer of hardcore horror!" - Edward Lee
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The book starts off with the amazing idea that every story in the book will be good, but it was an unrealistic idea because you can't please everyone. If you buy this book, don't read the introduction where they put their book on such a high pedestal that disappointment is guaranteed.
Don't take this review the wrong way, there are some very talented writers in this book, but it is full of violence for the sake of violence. If you love violence for shock value rather than there being any meaning behind it, then this book is for you. If you don't mind buying this and only reading the parts where the violence is backed up by a good story, then I'd tell you to give this book a chance because there were some stories in there that I really did enjoy!
I'd liked to point out that I don't regret buying the book, despite my negative comments.
For anyone who is wondering, I knocked one star off because there are typos in the book.


To say I was on the edge of my seat would be an understatement. I spent several nights with my mind spinning with questions. One that repeated is: What would I do if I was in these characters' shoes? How far would I go to protect myself and my family?
I had a good chuckle when I read Guest Services: A Quarry Story by Max Allan Collins so as not to give anything away I'll just put one quote to look for while you're reading the story “We have adequate lighting.”
There's a great mix in this book of different stories and if you're looking to find some new authors of gritty crime telling this is the book to find them.

