Dark Land, Dark Mirror: Tioga Vignetta Noir (Volume 1) - Softcover

Raskin, Jonah

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9780692937839: Dark Land, Dark Mirror: Tioga Vignetta Noir (Volume 1)

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ISBN 10: 0692937838 ISBN 13: 9780692937839

Publisher: McCaa Books, 2017

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In Jonah Raskin’s Dark Land, Dark Mirror, we meet a group of characters right out of a Raymond Chandler novel or a Quentin Tarantino movie. The protagonist, Tioga Vignetta, is a female private eye. Hunker down with a glass of wine and start reading this page-turner.”

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About the Author:

Jonah Raskin is the author of 14 books, including biographies of Jack London, Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in England where he studied with Frank Kermode. His B.A. and M.A. are from Columbia, a school he attended because Ginsberg and Kerouac had been there. A performance poet, Raskin is the author of seven poetry chapbooks and performs his work with jazz musicians. His first teaching job was at Winston State College in North Carolina, his second at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his third at Sonoma State University where he taught for thirty years in both the English Department and Communication Studies. He has been a book reviewer and a book critic for The San Francisco Chronicle and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, and a restaurant reviewer forThe Bohemian. He is current a staff reporter for Valley of the Moon magazine and writes about everything the editor assigns him, from drug addiction and wine tasting rooms to bicycles and baseball. He has written his first murder mystery titled Dark Land, Dark Mirror which was published in 2017. Among his other books are Field Days, Natives, Newcomers, Exiles, Fugitives, My Search for B. Traven, For The Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman and American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat Generation. He was a Fulbright Professor in Belgium where he taught American Literature in Antwerp and Ghent. In the Spring of 2017, he lectured on Indian film and literature at several universities in and around Delhi, India.

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