Pick-Up by Willeford, Charles and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Charles Willeford was a great American crime writer, whose Hoke Mosely novels are policier breakthroughs and whose The Burnt Orange Heresy is a hilarious yet nasty take on art and forgery. But Pick Up, his debut, is seriously flawed.4/5(32). Pick-Up by Charles Willeford, told in the first-person tells the story of a painter who has lost faith in his abilities and is working at odd jobs in San Francisco. He picks up a girl at a bar where he is working, falls in love with her, and is drawn into her web of despair.4/5.
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First published as an unheralded paperback original, Pick-Up is an authentic underground classic, an explosive bulletin from the urban underbelly of mids America. It was Charles Willeford’s second novel, after a rough and wandering earlier life that had taken him from Depression-era hobo camps and soup kitchens to wartime battlefields. Pick-Up by Willeford, Charles and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru CHARLES WILLEFORD - PICK-UP () Synopsis/blurb. Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco, low-life Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up. That is until she meets Harry, who buys her a coffee and takes her home with him. Harry just wants to help, but before long he and Helen are both adrift in a sea of.
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