LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
Available in paperback from Head Shot Press.
Available in Kindle from Amazon.
A provocative collection of short noir stories, meet tales filled with grief, longing, ageing, regret, and of course violence and death, tales that slash through niceties and plunge you into the reality of life. Whenever I pick up a book by Maxim Jakubowski I always know my emotions are going to be tested and provoked. This collection feels like a very personal love story to noir. The tales have a sharp poignancy, whether secretly slicing a hidden space in thoughts waiting to catch you unaware, or getting hold of your feelings and giving them a good hard shake. My imagination took flight as the words wrapped themselves around me. I loved the tributes to J.G. Ballard, while Cornelia has to be a favourite, oh, and you may just find yourself meeting the author along the way too. By the end I found myself pondering, thoughtful, as though I was waiting for something just out of reach. Death has a Thousand Faces allows you to step off a springboard into a darkly poignant freefall, I just had to raise a glass to Maxim and choose it as a Liz Pick of the Month.
Liz Robinson
Find This Book In
About
Death Has A Thousand Faces Synopsis
Available in paperback from Head Shot Press.
Available in Kindle from Amazon.
Nineteen Stories of Sex and Death
From New Orleans to London to the Caribbean, within this new collection of short literary crime stories Maxim Jakubowski draws on his past to explore twinned themes of the erotic and the murderous. Interlocking sequences forge a sense of skewed biography, his characters intent on undermining happiness, pursuing detrimental goals that they are powerless to resist. These are quintessential noir tales underpinned with unassailable sexual power.
“I'd always been a glass half-empty sort of person, luxuriating in a sense of doom and familiar to defeat, whether it was in matters of the heart or seeing my books quickly take the direction of remainder bins. Which is why I was so taken by the criminal poets of despair, the empty streets and deceitful women of Cornell Woolrich and his customary downbeat endings in which I somehow found a sense of beauty.”
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
B0BJ2NJN2N |
| Publication date: |
1st November 2022 |
| Author: |
Maxim Jakubowski |
| Publisher: |
Head Shot Press |
| Format: |
Ebook |
| Primary Genre |
Shorter Reads
|
| Other Genres: |
|
| Recommendations: |
|
Author
About Maxim Jakubowski
Maxim Jakubowski is a London-based novelist and editor. He was born in the UK and educated in France. Following a career in book publishing, he opened the world-famous Murder One bookshop in London. He now writes full-time. He has two books of erotic photography, as well as many acclaimed crime collections. His novels include It's You That I Want To Kiss, Because She Though She Loved Me and On Tenderness Express, all three recently collected and reprinted in the USA as Skin In Darkness. Other books include Life In The Word of Women, The State of Montana, Kiss Me Sadly and Confessions Of A Romantic Pornographer. In 2006 he published American Casanova, a major erotic novel which he edited and on which fifteen of the top erotic writers in the world have collaborated, and his collected erotic short stories as Fools For Lust. He compiles two annual acclaimed series for the Mammoth list: Best New Erotica and Best British Crime. He is a winner of the Anthony and the Karel Awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, a past crime columnist for the Guardian newspaper and Literary Director of London's Crime Scene Festival.
More About Maxim Jakubowski
-262x400.jpg)
