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Gil Brewer was born Nov. 20, 1922 in Cauandaigua, NY. After leaving the army at the end of WWII, he joined his family who had settled in St. Petersburg, Florida. There he met Verlaine in 1947 and married her soon after. Brewer started by writing serious novels, but soon turned to pulp paperbacks after a sale to Gold Medal Books in 1950. | At one point, he had five books on the stands. At his height, he was a brilliant writer of sharply defined noir thrillers, usually involving a male protagonist driven to crime by the sexual allure of a young siren. But unwilling to promote himself, his career took a turn for the worse after a mental breakdown, and a long decline into alcoholism. Brewer died on Jan. 9, 1983. | ||||||||||
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| Wild to Possess / A Taste for Sin 1-933586-10-9 $19.95 Two frantic noirs that Anthony Boucher of the NYTimes called a "wild, incredible, yet somehow compelling hyperbole in both crime and sex." Includes essays by wife Verlaine Brewer and Bill Pronzini. Click on books for a larger view |
A Devil for O'Shaugnessy / The Three-Way Split 1-933586-20-6 $14.95 An all new Brewer novel, never before in print, together with one of his classic noirs from 1960 plus three rare short stories! Due Jan. 2008 |
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