Charles Willeford: Cockfighter (UK 2014) From the Publisher: Charles Willeford: Cockfighter. With a Foreword by Lawrence Block. The Murder Room / Orion Books, ISBN: 9781471914379 (August, 2014), eBook, 846 KB (ca. 224 p.), £4.99.
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Charles Willeford: Cockfighter (USA 2013) From the Publisher: Of that book, Harry Crews said, "Charles Willeford renders the sport with such knowledge and attention to detail that... I 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. Charles Willeford: Cockfighter. The Overlook Press, ISBN: 9781468306903 (August, 2013), eBook, 483 KB (ca. 225 p.), $14.99.
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Charles Willeford: Cockfighter (USA 1987) From the Publisher: COCKFIGHTER is the stunning novel of a singleminded man whose pursuit of the Cockfighter of the year medal takes him into the seamy underbelly of rural Southern life. into the hot, dusty small towns where hoarse, sweating men crouch around a cockpit, cheering as two gamecocks with steel tear at each other.and where beautiful, willing women administer their own special brand of succor to winner and loser alike. Charles Willeford: Cockfighter. Creative Arts Book Company / Black Lizard Books, ISBN: 0887390269 (August, 1987), 224 p., $3.95.
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Charles Willeford: Cockfighter (USA 1974) From the Publisher: COCKFIGHTER is the stunning novel of a singleminded man whose pursuit of the Cockfighter of the year medal takes him into the seamy underbelly of rural Southern life. into the hot, dusty small towns where hoarse, sweating men crouch around a cockpit, cheering as two gamecocks with steel tear at each other.and where beautiful, willing women administer their own special brand of succor to winner and loser alike. Charles Willeford: Cockfighter. New York: Avon Books, 1974, Avon 20495, 255 p., $1.50.
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Charles Willeford: Cockfighter (USA 1962) From the Publisher: 'I shrugged indifferently and sat down at the edge of the pit to arm my cock. I opened my gaff case, removed a bottle of typewriter-cleaning solvent, and cleaned Sandspur's spur stumps. After fitting tight chamois-skin coverings over both spurs, I slipped the metal sockets of the short heels over the covered stumps and tied them with waxed string, setting them low and a trifle to the outside. The points of the sharpened heels are sharper than needles and a man has to be careful when he arms a cock...' "I should be the happiest woman in the world. But once in awhile -- just once in awhile, mind you, Mr. Mansfield, I'd like to go into my bathroom and find the toilet seat up instead of down." Color flooded her face and the freckles almost disappeared...' The Editor's View Charles Willeford: Cockfighter. Chicago: Chicago Paperback House, 1962, "A hardcover paperback original", CPH B-120, 286 p., $0.60.
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