Waste Land

Name: Waste Land
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ISBN: 9780857420411

ISBN-10: 0857420410

ISBN-13: 9780857420411

Edition: 1990

Authors: Martin Rowson

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In Martin Rowson’sThe Waste Land, private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot’sThe Wasteland. Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is inspired in equal parts by the classic modernist poem and by the American noir novels of Raymond Chandler. Marlowe, searching for his dead partner’s killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, duped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops and going nowhere fast, Marlowe enters a nightmare world where Robert Frost, Norman Mailer and Edmund Wilson drink in the gloom of a London…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication date: 9/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 73
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

Martin Rowson is a writer and cartoonist. His work appears frequently in the Guardian and the Independent. His most recent books include The Dog Allusion, Fuck: The Human Odyssey, and Giving Offence.