William Hjortsberg, Author Counterpoint LLC $15 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59376-021-2
William Hjortsberg's Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg reprints two early works, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1972), that show how the author of Fallen Angel (the basis for the film Angel Heart) anticipated later ...
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William Hjortsberg, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $21 (289p) ISBN 978-0-87113-579-7
Set in 1923 in New York City, this droll and captivating fantasy-part gothic mystery, part Who's Who of the Jazz Age, part Perils of Pauline-reads like a collaboration between Mary Roberts Rinehart and Dorothy Parker. Fancifully peopled with the...
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William Hjortsberg. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $42.50 (880p) ISBN 978-1-58243-790-3
Bookended by harrowing accounts of poet and author Richard Brautigan's 1984 suicide, Hjortsberg's meticulously detailed biography of the writer is a study in excess, both in terms of Brautigan's life and Hjortsberg's page count. Described by one...
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William Hjortsberg. Open Road, $13.99 trade paper (242p) ISBN 978-1-4976-8073-9
Tod—the narrator of this bleak tale set in 1968 by Edgar-finalist Hjortsberg (Falling Angel)—and his wife, Linda, have driven from San Francisco to Barra de Navidad in “the cowboy state of Jalisco” on Mexico’s west coast, where they rent a cheap...
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William Hjortsberg, Author, William Hjorstberg, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (289p) ISBN 978-0-312-95795-7
Originally published in 1978, Hjortsberg's debut mystery was the basis for the film Angel Heart. (July)
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William Hjortsberg, Author, William Hjorstberg, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95695-0
Set in the Jazz Age and featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as protagonists, Hjortsberg's gothic mystery centers around spiritualism and a murderer who is modeling his crimes after those in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. (Feb.)
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