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Buy this book on-line KING, JOHN: : HEADHUNTERS. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1997. ISBN 0224043099.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj,with orange,grey and black lettering to front,grey+black to spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-307pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author's handwritten signature - without dedication - SIGNED title page,a dedication,an epigram (from Burgess's 'Clockwork Orange'.) individual Pts separator pages and 4pp blanks at the rear.
Following on from his best-selling study of violence,'The Football Factory',John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex.Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve,The Sex Division sees the once- sacred act of procreation at its most material,as five men devise a points system based on the higher levels of carnal achievement.In this lager-soaked league,the most that Woman can offer Man is 4 points - unless,that is,she leaves her handbag unattended. . .
From its base in the asset-stripped,emotionally castrated 90s,'Headhunters' shows the dreams of the Sex Division members breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion.A missing brother,prophetic visions,a love affair,and a tit-for-tat confrontation draw the characters out into the open - revealing the men behind the machismo, their need for mutual respect,and their recognition of the hidden or suppressed affinities between the sexes.
Scurriously funny and painfully true, 'Headhunter is a brilliant reflection of men at play,a wire-tap on a world of lust and lager by one of the most exciting new novelists in England.
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