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Shella
by Andrew Vachss
ISBN: 0679756817
ISBN-13: 9780679756811
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Vachss' seventh novel is the first that does not feature P.I. Burke. A shadowy assassin called 'Ghost' gets out of prison and begins a bloody search for the topless dancer who was his partner in crime before she abondoned him at the time of his arrest.
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"A noir archetype as bare as unfinished furniture. The plot ...had been sanded down into a taut monofilament....The prose in 'Shella' is boiled to the bone."
-- Village Voice
"Mesmerizing....'Shella' is built out of powerful vignettes that show us dark and strangely beautiful people who are fighting wars we can only distantly imagine."
-- Washington Post Book World
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1994
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Publisher's Notes
From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series come an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less that a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators.
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Shella (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
VACHSS, ANDREW
Vintage, August 23, 1994. Paperback. Good. Mystery & Thrillers : Mystery : Hard-Boiled ( more information) Offered by Pioneer Book (United States)
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Shella
Vachss, Andrew H
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1994. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. A tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators.. Soft Cover. New. ( more information) Offered by Book Lovers Warehouse (United States)
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Shella
Vachss, Andrew H
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1994. Light edge wear - otherwise clean and straight.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Wendys Books (United States)
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Shella
Vachss, Andrew
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard , 1994. Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 226 pages. - In his new novel Andrew Vachss moves beyond his powerful evocations of the private eye as pursuer and scourge of the evildoer. Now, in Shella, he explores the making of evil - the depths beneath the lower depths of American society and the terrifying products of that netherworld where children are born into ultimate abandonment and abuse, where only a few survive and some emerge not fully human. One such survivor is the man known as Ghost. His personality has been formed, diamond-hard, in the crucible of chilly orphanages and hellish juvenile prisons. He has grown the way a baby alligator grows - in size alone, not in essence. He has no experience of nurture or education. He has become an instrument. A weapon to be used by predators. He works only with his hands. His work - his art - is killing. He is a superb killer: imaginative, efficient, precise, cold. He easily finds employment. When he does time, he emerges from prison neither hurt nor healed - exactly as before. But now he is no longer drifting. He has a mission that enlists all his banked energies: to track the woman who calls herself Shella. She is a runway dancer. She is, like himself, a survivor of her own destruction, kept alive by anger. But Ghost knows that she has, for an instant, glimpsed the man behind the steel mask he wears, and that she is as astonished as he to find someone to connect with. Sheila has disappeared. And Ghost - desperate to reconnect - discovers the only route that might lead him back to her: straight through the cruel alleys, the topless bars, the dark tunnels of pornography and prostitution, into the raging center of a neo-Nazi enclave whose leader is instantly drawn to him... Sheila is the story of a killer stalking his destined prey, driven by forces he cannot understand. It is the story of a man searching for a witness to his own humanity. . Trade Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Ginny6 Books (United States)
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Shella
Andrew Vachss
Vintage, 1994-08-23. Paperback. Acceptable. ( more information) Offered by The Book Stop (United States)
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Shella (Qty: 2)
Vachss, Andrew
Vintage. Trade Paperback. very good reading copy ( more information) Offered by Grave Matters (United States)
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Vachss, Andrew
NY: Vintage Crime, 1994. Trade Paperback. FC05516.. Paperback. Fine/ . ( more information) Offered by BookCollector.net (United States)
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Andrew Vachss
Vintage, 1994-08-23. Paperback. Acceptable. ( more information) Offered by The Book Stop (United States)
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Shella
VACHSS, ANDREW
Vintage Books, New York: 1993. Softcover. Good condition. Nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators. Shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. ISBN: 0679756817. ( more information) Offered by Ad Infinitum Books (United States)
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Vachss, Andrew
NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. Near Fine in softcover. 1994. trade pb. Keywords: mystery, 0-679-75681-7. ( more information) Offered by Books End (United States)
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Shella
Vachss, Andrew H
Random House Inc. Used - Very Good. Condition: Previously read, moderate to light wear.; bkcs ( more information) Offered by Magers and Quinn Booksellers (United States)
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Shella
Vachss, Andrew
New York, New York: Vintage Books / Random House, Inc, 1993. Later Printing. paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Edge wear to covers, corner crease to front cover. ISBN: 0-679-75681-7. ( more information) Offered by Adventures Underground (United States)
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Vachss, Andrew
New York, New York: Vintage Books / Random House, Inc, 1994. paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Light wear to corners and edges. ISBN: 0679756817. ( more information) Offered by Adventures Underground (United States)
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Shella
Vachss, Andrew H
New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1994. Soft Cover. Nr Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by The Book Faire (United States)
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Vachss, Andrew
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Books. 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. ( more information) Offered by Second Chance Books (United States)
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Shella (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Andrew Vachss
Vintage, 1994. 1994. Paperback. Very Good. No Jacket. Vintage. VERY GOOD Softbound, Cover has NO wear. NO spine seams. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean with NO markings and NO dog-ears. Binding is PAPERBACK. ISBN: 0679756817 only blemish book store stamp bottom of book, where the book rests on the book shelf. ( more information) Offered by morebooks2 (United States)
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Shella (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Andrew Vachss
Vintage, 1994. Paperback. Used-Like New. Publisher: Vintage Books Date of Publication: September 1994 Binding: Paperback Condition: Used-Very Good. ( more information) Offered by morebooks2 (United States)
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Shella
Andrew Vachss
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Vachss, Andrew
Vintage. PAPERBACK. 0679756817 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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