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A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hard-boiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe. His career as a writer began in the late 1940s, but it was his 1972 novel Cockfighter that announced his name to a wider audience.
Of that book, Harry Crews said, “Charles Willeford renders the sport with such knowledge and attention to detail that...had the almost inexpressible impression of being on my knees again beside the great fighting pits of the southern circuit.
Frank Mansfield is the titular cockfighter: a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. Mansfield haunts the cockpits, bars and roads of the rural South in the early 1960s, adrift but always capable of nearly anything.
First published in complete form in 1972, and adapted by Willeford for a Monte Hellman film in 1974 (which became infamous for its use of real animals in the fight scenes), the novel Cockfighter has been out of print for nearly 20 years.
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Larry Dolman is a rather literal-minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who's separated from his wife, but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys. When a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings - and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens.
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Interesting story, incredible performances
- De Anonymous User en 07-15-23
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Miami Blues
- Hoke Moseley, Book 1
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious Eldorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn't think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over 10 years of cases, wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures.
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Proof it can be done!
- De LadySpeaker en 10-07-15
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The Burnt Orange Heresy
- A Novel
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, and beyond - to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living - and most reclusive - artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality's limits to a bigger payoff?
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Portrait of an Artist as a Immobilized Hero
- De Rich S. en 07-05-21
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The Black Mass of Brother Springer
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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The Black Mass of Brother Springer tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement...and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita.
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The Woman Chaser
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used-car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.
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Interesting structure to a noir
- De Darryl en 05-11-23
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Writing & Other Blood Sports
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Charles Willeford was a man of letters in all senses of the word. Poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and raconteur, his early paperback novels with their existential/immobilized heroes were the creations (to paraphrase Chandler) of a man not himself immobilized - a man who, instead, with his trademark black-humored prose, doggedly examined the mind-thrumming banalities of our materially sated but intellectually befuddled postwar world, crafting a body of work that is only now, 50-some years after his first appearance in print, beginning to be widely appreciated.
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Loved The Immobilized Hero
- De Rich S. en 07-05-21
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Understudy for Death
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out - and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.
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Kiss Your Ass Goodbye
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
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In this classic Miami crime story and thriller, from the writer acclaimed for his Hoke Moseley novels, a man's life is threatened when he discovers his new lover is married.
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Deliver Me from Dallas
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer, Roger Wayne, A.T Chandler, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge.
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Something About a Soldier
- De: Charles Willeford
- Narrado por: Dan McGowan
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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This funny, rich, raunchy autobiography re-creates the adventures of a very young soldier in the US Army at the height of the Depression. Charles Willeford was 16 in 1935 when he signed up and was sent to the Philippines. And the Philippines of those days was like a place out of another century. Willeford’s job was to fuel aircraft whose pilots treated him and his buddies almost like slaves. At night, however, he was a lord, fully exploring a great, timeless, and sensual city with a multitude of women available - even on a private’s pay.
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A window into a writers past
- De Maracapozzi en 04-29-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cockfighter
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- Bekah Bryant
- 10-23-21
A Bloody, Griity, Beautiful Mess.
One of my new favorites.
Narration is perfect for the story.
The protagonist (antagonist?) is a real son of a bitch, with a residual sense of honor.
The story is grisly and glorious in equal measure.
It's very existence is anathema to the modern dogmas of sanitation and safety, and will undoubtedly be decried by the faithful adherents of such decrees should they ever become aware of it. Do yourself a favor, and listen to it while it's still around.
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- Vincent
- 08-05-24
if there is a better life than raising and fighting gamecocks I havent found it yet
There are only 2 books that possess the answer to any question a man may have throughout his life. One is The Holy Bible, the other is Cockfighter by Charles Willeford
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- Paraskevi
- 01-06-21
Great Author, Great Story
This was a great story by Charles Willeford, disregard the chicken fights, but focus on the writing. Most of Mr. Willeford's work is top shape and I don't think he has gotten the respect as a writer that he deserves, maybe it is that not that many people have heard of him, but folks give him a try, I think you will be surprised.
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- kutzkai
- 01-06-21
A Solid Yes
First off Charles Willeford was a great writer, and in my opinion Cockfighter is one of his best books. I know some people have given it bad reviews, based on the cruel and violence on Cocks, but you have to remember this is a fictional story. I am not a fan of cockfighting, and I have never been to a cockfight, but I am basing my review on the writing which is superb. If you can't handle the chicken violence & cruelty maybe stay away. I learned alot about chickens and cock's especially, these are brave and fierce animals and they will fight to the death or until one cock runs away, and this is a natural instinct in Cocks...Cockfighting goes back hundreds and thousands of years.....Well here is the blurb.
The sport is cockfighting, and Frank Mansfield is the Cockfighter-a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of the Hoke Mosely detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural South.
I think I paid $7.95 for this audiobook, and I bought the hardcover so I could read along while listening.and it was worth every penny in my eyes and ears.
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