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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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1993, Vintage books, Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1990
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1990, Vintage Books
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Publish date unknown, Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)
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Publish date unknown, Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)
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"First published 1954"--T.p. verso.
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