WILLEFORD, CHARLES — Kiss Your Ass Goodbye

Miami Beach, FL: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1987. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This edition is limited to 400 copies signed by the author - this is copy number 108. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. "Steve Erickson suggests that Willeford's crime novels are the "genre's equivalent of Philip K. Dick's best science fiction novels. They don't really fit into the genre." Marshall Jon Fisher describes the "true earmark" of Willeford's writing, particularly his early paperbacks, as "humor—a distinctively crotchety, sometimes raunchy, often genre-satirizing humor." "Quirky is the word that always comes to mind," according to crime novelist Lawrence Block. "Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters, and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard for what anyone else thought." In Erickson's description, "The camera's not really focused on the middle of the scene. It's a little bit off. They're not plot driven or language driven, which makes them really different from most major crime novels. They're character driven and cunning in a very eccentric way." " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .