{"product_id":"things-get-ugly-the-best-crime-fiction-of-joe-r-lansdale-joe-r-lansdale-signed","title":"Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale: Joe R. Lansdale *SIGNED*","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*SIGNED*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEdgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHap and Leonard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e series), one of America's most essential crime writers, heads back to the dangerous woods of East Texas. In his first crime career-retrospective, including previously uncollected work, Lansdale shows exactly why critics continue to compare him to Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e“Pulpy, blackly humorous, compulsively readable, and somehow both wildly surreal and down-to-earth. Lansdale is a national fucking treasure.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e―Christa Faust, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMoney Shot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle. A lonely man engages in dubious acts while pining for his rubber duckie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly―and fast.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beastly Books","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback SIGNED","offer_id":47739147845878,"sku":"9781616963965","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/6819\/6086\/files\/Untitleddesign-24_cbf4c8b2-177e-42ed-addd-486faeb6ffc1.png?v=1738712795","url":"https:\/\/www.beastlybooks.live\/products\/things-get-ugly-the-best-crime-fiction-of-joe-r-lansdale-joe-r-lansdale-signed","provider":"Beastly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}