Need - Hardcover
Book by Cohn, Nik
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Nik Cohn is not the kind of novelist who is content to write about the merely downtrodden. In his new novel, Need, the belly dancers also deliver Verse-O-Grams; the sad sack has a shoe fetish and dreams of making his fortune as topless car-wash magnate; and even the psychic moonlights running a bizarre pet shop. Of course, the novel is set in New York City, where all this and more is possible, really. There's something a little hallucinatory about Need, as if the strange characters and the even stranger circumstances they find themselves in were all part of a troubling dream one can't quite wake from. Gritty as the urban landscape he details, Nik Cohn's language is the engine that keeps this novel running to the very end.
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y is in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, with the street-corner preachers running amok. Into the fray, four damaged lives come together at a pet store on the Upper West Side, each one consumed by a private hunger and driven toward an inevitable fate. 304 pp. 15,000 print.
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0436203391
- ISBN 13 9780436203398
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. New York is in the grip of a murderous heatwave. Four lives come together, a reformed psychic, a young Puerto Rican hustler, a belly dancer and a black Irishman from Donegal. Meanwhile, in the subways, a sect called the Black Swans gather awaiting the apocalypse. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR007851796
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cohn's novel of New York in fine, clean, crisp and bright order throughout. Smart blue boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG+ unclipped d/j. 8vo. 298pp. Seller Inventory # 008579
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Book Description Condition: DISCRETO USATO. I. INGLESE Sovraccoperta leggermente stanca agli angoli, ai margini e alle estremità del dorso. Legatura con titoli dorati solo al dorso, stanca lievemente alle estremità di esso. Pagine ben salde alla cerniera, con ampio margine, lievemente brunite, così come i tagli. Presente lieve fioritura ai tagli e in minor misura alle controguardie. Numero pagine 298. Seller Inventory # LOL5608
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