FORGOTTEN BOOKS #135: GETTING OFF By Lawrence Block


You can read all about how Lawrence Block (writing as “Jill Emerson”) came to write Getting Off: A Novel of Sex & Violence at http://pattinase.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-i-came-to-write-this-book-lawrence.html on Patti Abbott’s blog. Hard Case is publishing plenty of older crime novels that appeal to a certain market segment. Getting Off is a hybrid, part crime novel and part sleaze novel from 50 years ago. It works for me. I bet you’ll enjoy Block’s off-beat novel, too.

15 thoughts on “FORGOTTEN BOOKS #135: GETTING OFF By Lawrence Block

  1. Jeff Meyerson

    I’ve been reading the Block short stories featuring this character – see “How I Wrote This Book” by Block on Patti Abbott’s blog recently – and will read the last one before I read the novel.

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  2. Stan Burns

    Great cover! Worthy as the cover of an edition of Mazes!

    Beth: I am shocked, woman. Shocked. What is the younger generation coming to?

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