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Joseph Hansen (1) (1923–2004)

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55+ obres 4,345 Membres 69 Ressenyes 13 preferits

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Joseph Hansen was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on July 19, 1923. He attended Pasasdena City College. Hansen's fiction began to appear in the 60s. He published under the pseudonym James Colton because of the homosexual characters and themes of his work. He had published five novels and a mostra'n més collection of short stories when "Fadeout," the first of the Brandstetter mystery novels, was released. It is this series of 12 novels, which was published from 1970 to 1991 for which Hansen was most well known. Hansen wrote almost 40 books, which included novels and a series of semi-autobiographical works. He also taught fiction workshops, published poems in The New Yorker and produced a local radio show in the 60s called "Homosexuality Today." In 1965 he founded the pioneering homosexual journal Tangents. In 1974 Hansen was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1992 he won the lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Joseph Hansen died on November 24, 2004 at the age of 81 from heart failure. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Joseph Hansen

Fadeout (1970) 460 exemplars
Death Claims (1973) 287 exemplars
Troublemaker (1975) 274 exemplars
Skinflick (1979) 243 exemplars
The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of (1978) 238 exemplars
A Country of Old Men (1990) 222 exemplars
Nightwork (1984) 218 exemplars
Gravedigger (1982) 206 exemplars
Early Graves (1987) 203 exemplars
The Little Dog Laughed (1986) 191 exemplars
Living Upstairs (1993) 189 exemplars
Obedience (1988) 173 exemplars
A smile in his lifetime (1981) 158 exemplars
Jack of Hearts (1995) — Autor — 133 exemplars
Job's Year (1983) 126 exemplars
Steps Going Down (1985) 109 exemplars
Brandstetter and Other Stories (1984) 103 exemplars
Pretty Boy Dead (1977) 87 exemplars
Bohannon's Country (1993) 74 exemplars
Bohannon's Book (1988) 60 exemplars
Blood, Snow, & Classic Cars (2000) 40 exemplars
Strange Marriage (1965) 23 exemplars
The Outward Side (1971) 23 exemplars
Bohannon's Women (2002) 21 exemplars
The Complete Brandstetter (2006) 18 exemplars
Todd (1995) 18 exemplars
Dog and Other Stories (1979) 12 exemplars
Stranger to himself (1977) 10 exemplars
The Cutbank Path (2002) 10 exemplars
Hang-up (1969) 9 exemplars
Known Homosexual (1968) 8 exemplars
Lost on Twilight Road (1964) 8 exemplars
One foot in the boat (1977) 5 exemplars
Cocksure (1969) 3 exemplars
The piano player 2 exemplars
Tarn House (1971) 2 exemplars
Ghosts and Other Poems (SC) (1998) 2 exemplars
The Corrupter (1968) 2 exemplars
Election Day 1 exemplars
The Anderson Boy 1 exemplars
Widower's Walk 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps (2003) — Col·laborador — 203 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988) — Col·laborador — 161 exemplars
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999) — Col·laborador — 157 exemplars
The Night Awakens (2000) — Col·laborador — 114 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories (1997) — Col·laborador — 100 exemplars
The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write about Their Fathers (2002) — Col·laborador — 78 exemplars
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics (2010) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers (1999) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Home Sweet Homicide (1991) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars

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I missed these. There has been a delay in the new reprinting of this series so I went a long time between 'Nightwork' and the nail-biting perfection of 'Gravedigger'.

I would say you need to read 'Gravedigger, at least, before you read this one. The mystery stands alone but the characters are so important you need to understand where they are coming from. Some time has passed and wounds are slow to heal. Brandstetter is on another case and trying to keep Cecil healing.

Brandstetter is called in to investigate what looks like a routine trucking accident. A long-haul driver clocking too many hours drives off a high road. Quickly, however, suspicious details add up and it becomes important to determine just what exactly was being hauled and where.

These are amazing books and I can't wait to get my hand on the last five.

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Next: 'The Little Dog Laughed'

Previous: 'Gravedigger'
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ManWithAnAgenda | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Mar 24, 2024 |
Loving this series! Echoes of Raymond Chandler, without being a pastiche.
 
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GratzFamily | Hi ha 12 ressenyes més | Nov 20, 2023 |
this was both really well written, and really well thought out, plus it was brave and strong in a way i wasn't expecting. i knew the main character was a gay man, and that in 1970 to write him this way was surprising, but i didn't think that homosexuality would end up being such a key part of the story. that it would feature so heavily and matter so much to the mystery. and for hansen to do that in the first of the series, right out of the gate, not save that until his series and character were established and already well-liked, is both surprising and really brave. and that he did it so well that, even though homosexuality was illegal in 49 states at the time, that this became a popular series, is nothing short of game changing. i hope people read this at the time and started to shift their views, and their understanding. i don't see how they could read this (and presumably the rest of the series) and not be changed.

as to the mystery itself, it's really well done. i was reading it most of the time, thinking, 'why don't more writers do this?' it's so smart, have an insurance claims man investigate and instead of find a murderer, find a person who isn't dead at all. it seemed brilliant to me, and the book clipped along really nicely as well. then it did become a regular murder mystery, which i wasn't thinking would happen at that point, and that ended up working well, too. so many twists that i didn't expect. so many people i was sure had done it that didn't. all around i'm very impressed. the only thing i didn't like was that he ended up sleeping with the 17 year old at the end. that was self-indulgent, i think, and there was no need for it, especially as it was pointed out at different points in the book that it was illegal and also that it would be considered rape. so i really wish he hadn't done that. the author and the character, i mean.

for so many reasons this is such an excellent start to a series and to a character study. the universality of grief, the way he writes about community and belonging and the heartbreaking way his characters have either not lived their truth or have tried to be someone else, or have lived for someone else. this is a really sad, but also really beautiful story.

"His face kept the smile the way an old barn keeps a sign."

describing a house: "It tried to be yellow and managed a sick pale brown."
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overlycriticalelisa | Hi ha 19 ressenyes més | Mar 11, 2023 |
Naples, FL 2023 #2 - Wow! Plowed through this in no time. Very much enjoyed the calm-demeanored manner in which Dave Brandstetter drove this fast-moving bus! I have read all of the Michael Nava detective books, and since he wrote the forward of this, i figured i would give it a try. Luckily it was his first! Written long before a gay leading character would have been considered a wise move in literary circles. Unexpected twists and turns, which are very good in my book. Looks like i have to go find the rest!! Bravo!… (més)
 
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jeffome | Hi ha 19 ressenyes més | Jan 26, 2023 |

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