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Post by ripper on Feb 3, 2014 22:25:02 GMT
Hi David, It's good to hear that it has been re-issued and crossed-fingers maybe the other two will make it back into print sometime. I had the Get Carter movie tie-in with Michael Caine on the cover and an insert on the back showing Caine with a naked woman, bought off a classmate in the mid-70s.
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Post by ltd on Feb 4, 2014 14:50:32 GMT
I have only read Get Carter/Jack's Return Home, but there was a multi-part reading of Jack Carter's Law on Radio 4 Extra several years ago, which was repeated at least once. I really need to read Get Carter again and try to obtain copies of the other two. The reading of Jack Carter's Law was okay but, I suspect, heavily abridged. They also did Jack's Return Home about a year ago, read by Hugo Speer. Wasn't bad, but rather sanitised when compared to the original novel and film adaptation.
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Post by ripper on Feb 5, 2014 11:34:46 GMT
Thanks for the information about Jack's Return Home, Ltd. I didn't know about the reading, so I shall keep an eye open for when it is repeated. Actually, thinking about it, it must have been around 4 years ago that I heard the reading of Jack Carter's Law, which I think was read by Phil Daniels.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 28, 2017 13:36:40 GMT
Currently reading "Get Carter" (Jack returns home) - for some reason, probably because I'd seen the film so many times, I'd avoided reading this. My mum bought me it for my birthday - bloody loving it. The first person narrative gives a depth to some of the things which the film hints at.
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 28, 2017 13:54:58 GMT
One of the best crime novels I have ever read. I would love to get a chance to read the others but they're only avail;able second-hand at prohibitive prices. Wish someone would reprint them in affordable copies.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 28, 2017 15:03:44 GMT
Hi David, It's good to hear that it has been re-issued and crossed-fingers maybe the other two will make it back into print sometime. I had the Get Carter movie tie-in with Michael Caine on the cover and an insert on the back showing Caine with a naked woman, bought off a classmate in the mid-70s. Got this copy from the October 2015 pulp fair. Ted Lewis - Carter (Pan 1971; originally published as Jack's Return Home, Michael Joseph, 1970) Blurb Jack Carter, strong-arm man for a London gang, returns to his Northern home town for a funeral. Brother Frank was honest, meek and sober. So why was he found dead after a car crash stinking of whisky? Jack wants to know - old friends are shifty— old enemies edgy— and the girls aren't talking .. . Fast of mind, fist and boot, Jack decides to stay around. "A fast-moving toughie . . . poker scene, brothel scene, blue film, harsh landscape, several murders. . . tightly told and all too convincing." - Yorkshire Post. "A cracking tale ... Ted Lewis is a name to watch." - Sunday Express.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 28, 2017 16:11:44 GMT
Now THAT's back cover art! From what I've read a lot of people seem to rate GBH as his "masterpiece" over "Jack Comes Home" so I'll be keeping an eye out for that!
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Post by cromagnonman on Nov 28, 2017 18:56:10 GMT
In view of what came after its interesting to reflect that Lewis's first published foray into fiction was an early 60s slice-of-northern-life/kitchen sink drama in the vein of Alan Sillitoe and John Braine called ALL THE WAY HOME AND ALL THE NIGHT THROUGH. Its all about an art school lothario working his way through the affections of a string of northern lasses. Recently found this copy of the original 66 Arrow paperback down in Baggins': Was also dead chuffed to find the accompanying copy of BOLDT which is strong meat by all accounts. Sadly no copy of GBH to go along with them, more's the pity.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 28, 2017 19:55:52 GMT
Considering my sometimes interest in crime-fiction and that I even tried Derek Raymond - which I never could finish - I never could get enough interest to read Lewis and his Get Carter. Just saw the movie a long time ago.
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 4, 2017 10:16:31 GMT
^I've always struggled with Raymond as well. Feel I should give him another go at some point
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Post by ltd on Feb 23, 2020 9:09:00 GMT
In view of what came after its interesting to reflect that Lewis's first published foray into fiction was an early 60s slice-of-northern-life/kitchen sink drama in the vein of Alan Sillitoe and John Braine called ALL THE WAY HOME AND ALL THE NIGHT THROUGH. Its all about an art school lothario working his way through the affections of a string of northern lasses. Recently found this copy of the original 66 Arrow paperback down in Baggins': There's also The Rabbit which is in a similar vein. It might even be a sequel -a long time since I read it so not entirely sure on that.
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