In 1960 Derek Raymond (aka Robin Cook), "an upper-class wide-boy", made front-page news when a Rubens and a Renoir disappeared. This autobiography by the Fifties wide-boy and amateur art-dealer, Sixties mainstream novelist and Eighties crime-writer, reflects the contradictions in his personality - a mixture of bleakness and urbanity, black despair and courteous generosity. These are the memoirs of a natural writer - one whose behaviour at times is reminiscent of the computer on which he writes, and its array of hidden files that hold the functions which make it the subtle and flexible machine that it is. Like the computer, the writer's performance is judged on the final, visible quality of his output, rather than the obscure, cryptic processes that contributed to it. The book represents an attempt to break the codes and gain access to the author's personality. Derek Raymond's books include the series of four "Factory" crime novels.
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Vendeur : The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 342pp. Black cloth-covered boards in crisp, unclipped dust-jacket. Flat-signed by the author as Derek Raymond (his pen name) on front free endpaper. A bright, tight copy of the first UK edition in unread condition. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 257410
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Vendeur : Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. For some reason missing ffep, though it appears otherwise a fresh copy in VG unclipped jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1688904989130
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