{"product_id":"the-mad-and-the-bad-paperback","title":"The Mad and the Bad - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Patrick Manchette\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames Sallis\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe craziness is just getting started. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated \u003ci\u003eFatale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mad and the Bad\u003c\/i\u003e is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Patrick Manchette\u003c\/b\u003e (1942-1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator. Born in Marseille to a family of relatively modest means, Manchette grew up in a southwestern suburb of Paris, where he wrote from an early age. While a student of English literature at the Sorbonne, he contributed articles to the newspaper \u003ci\u003eLa Voie communiste\u003c\/i\u003e and became active in the national students' union. In 1961 he married, and with his wife Mélissa began translating American crime fiction--he would go on to translate the works of such writers as Donald Westlake, Ross Thomas, and Margaret Millar, often for Gallimard's Série noire. Throughout the 1960s Manchette supported himself with various jobs writing television scripts, screenplays, young-adult books, and film novelizations. In 1971 he published his first novel, a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bastid, and embarked on his literary career in earnest, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and establishing a new genre of French novel, the \u003ci\u003enéo-polar\u003c\/i\u003e (distinguished from traditional detective novel, or \u003ci\u003epolar\u003c\/i\u003e, by its political engagement and social radicalism). During the 1980s, Manchette published celebrated translations of Alan Moore's Watchmen graphic novels for a \u003ci\u003ebande-dessinée \u003c\/i\u003epublishing house co-founded by his son, Doug Headline. In addition to \u003ci\u003eFatale\u003c\/i\u003e (also available as an NYRB Classic), Manchette's novels \u003ci\u003eThree to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Prone Gunman\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Jacques Tardi's graphic-novel adaptations of them (titled \u003ci\u003eWest Coast Blues\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLike a Sniper Lining Up His Shot\u003c\/i\u003e, respectively), are available in English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e's translations of noir fiction include Manchette's \u003ci\u003eThree to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e; Thierry Jonquet's\u003ci\u003e Mygale\u003c\/i\u003e (a.k.a. \u003ci\u003eTarantula\u003c\/i\u003e); and (with Alyson Waters) Yasmina Khadra's \u003ci\u003eCousin K\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also translated works by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Raoul Vaneigem, Antonin Artaud, Jean Laplanche, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Guy Debord. For NYRB Classics he has translated Manchette's \u003ci\u003eFatale \u003c\/i\u003eand is presently working on Jean-Paul Clébert's \u003ci\u003eParis Insolite\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Manchester, England, he is a longtime resident of New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Sallis\u003c\/b\u003e's recent and forthcoming books include the novel \u003ci\u003eOthers of My Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, a reissue of his novel \u003ci\u003eDeath Will Have Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlack Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: Selected Poems 1968-2012\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eDrive\u003c\/i\u003e and of \u003ci\u003eChester Himes: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and the translator of Raymond Queneau's novel \u003ci\u003eSaint Glinglin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.2 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771227308320,"sku":"9781590177204","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/49983aa3763ef1342d06f80103fc529a.webp?v=1780383532","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-mad-and-the-bad-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}