Akbar Del Piombo Norman Rubington 1966 Fuzz Against Junk & The Hero Maker PB

Description: Trade PB. 8vo. Published by New English Library/Olympia Press, London, UK. 1966. 197 pgs. Olympia Press Traveller's Companion Series, No.106. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Akbar del Piombo — illustrious subterranean luminary, mysterious, pseudonymous author of six darkly comic, wildly satirical collage novels. Akbar del Piombo — preposterous, portentous name, once widely believed to be a nom-de-plume of William S. Burroughs. Akbar del Piombo — the name itself a kind of collage, fittingly inconsonant for a virtuoso of the incongruous. Fuzz Against Junk - Akbar Del PiomboThe first of the Akbar del Piombo collage novels — and probably the best known of the six – is Fuzz Against Junk (1959). First published by the Olympia Press in Paris, the book was then marketed in the U.S. by the Citadel Press, later reprinted by New English Library and by Beach Books, and subsequently serialized in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine. Subtitled “The Saga of the Narcotics Brigade,” the novel recounts the exploits of Sir Edwin Fuzz, “foremost narcotics expert of the United Kingdom and sleuth par excellence,” who is summoned to New York city to aid in combating an unparalleled outbreak of criminality there, the consequence of an equally unprecedented epidemic of heroin addiction. The prime mover of the burgeoning rate of drug addiction and its attendant wave of violent crime is an elusive figure known as “The Man,” a criminal genius and a master of disguise. On the basis of the evidence presented to him by New York police, Sir Edwin shrewdly concludes that the true epicentre of the mayhem besetting the city of New York lies at the other end of the continent in San Francisco. Sir Edwin then leads a band of detectives to San Francisco where they disguise themselves as “beatniks,” infiltrate the drug milieu of that city, and ultimately succeed in capturing “The Man,” who, faced with imprisonment for his multitudinous misdeeds, chooses, instead, to commit suicide. Akbar Del Piombo Norman Rubington 1966 Fuzz Against Junk & The Hero Maker PB Description Up For Sale Today is Fuzz Against Junk The Saga of the Narcotics Brigade & The Hero Maker by Akbar Del Piombo Pseudonym of Norman Rubington with collages by Norman Rubington Trade PB. 12mo. Published by New English Library/Olympia Press, London, UK. 1966. 197 pgs. Olympia Press Traveller's Companion Series, No.106. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Akbar del Piombo — illustrious subterranean luminary, mysterious, pseudonymous author of six darkly comic, wildly satirical collage novels. Akbar del Piombo — preposterous, portentous name, once widely believed to be a nom-de-plume of William S. Burroughs. Akbar del Piombo — the name itself a kind of collage, fittingly inconsonant for a virtuoso of the incongruous. Fuzz Against Junk - Akbar Del PiomboThe first of the Akbar del Piombo collage novels — and probably the best known of the six – is Fuzz Against Junk (1959). First published by the Olympia Press in Paris, the book was then marketed in the U.S. by the Citadel Press, later reprinted by New English Library and by Beach Books, and subsequently serialized in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine. Subtitled “The Saga of the Narcotics Brigade,” the novel recounts the exploits of Sir Edwin Fuzz, “foremost narcotics expert of the United Kingdom and sleuth par excellence,” who is summoned to New York city to aid in combating an unparalleled outbreak of criminality there, the consequence of an equally unprecedented epidemic of heroin addiction. The prime mover of the burgeoning rate of drug addiction and its attendant wave of violent crime is an elusive figure known as “The Man,” a criminal genius and a master of disguise. On the basis of the evidence presented to him by New York police, Sir Edwin shrewdly concludes that the true epicentre of the mayhem besetting the city of New York lies at the other end of the continent in San Francisco. Sir Edwin then leads a band of detectives to San Francisco where they disguise themselves as “beatniks,” infiltrate the drug milieu of that city, and ultimately succeed in capturing “The Man,” who, faced with imprisonment for his multitudinous misdeeds, chooses, instead, to commit suicide. The Hero Maker - Akbar Del PiomboAuthority and conformity, credulity and vanity are the targets of satirical humor in the second of the Akbar del Piombo collage novels, The Hero Maker. The novel is set in a dystopian society that has displaced Eros with Thanatos, a society so deeply imbued with a distorted version of the heroic ideal that all of its male citizens nourish no other ambition in life than that of dying heroically. In this community, the Royal Heroic Society is a hallowed institution that – after deliberation by a jury – awards to aspirants the highly coveted official heroic status. This supreme mark of achievement, regarded as conferring immortality on the recipient, can only be granted posthumously, heroism being seen by its very nature to require the decease of the individual (in an heroic manner, of course.) The obvious irony here is that what is regarded as immortality – in the form of a statue or monument or merely an official certificate – necessitates personal annihilation, the untimely sacrifice utterly and forever of all ones potentials and possibilities. A further irony can be seen in the mindless eagerness with which multitudes of young men submit themselves to the various painful preliminary tests and the annual final (fatal) trial and in the agonies of ignominy suffered by the failed candidates for immortality. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. 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