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The Shark-Infested Custard (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Category: Book
List Price: £6.11
Buy New: £2.49
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 363287
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400032512
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400032518
ASIN: 1400032512
Publication Date: December 6, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: New book. Due to problems with Standard Airmail delivery times from the USA, we have switched to using PRIORITY AIRMAIL ONLY. UK & European delivery is 7-10 days.
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 Did Tarantino read this?!? September 14, 2003
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pulp fiction, was never criticised as being before its time, all though Shark infested custard, surely would've been, the intercrossing style of narrative bears unusaul simmilarities with a certain palme d'or winner, The storys brief and poignant entertain and assist the musketeers all for one style premise, painting an entertaining picture of male america
 A hoot from beginning to end March 7, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The scary and funny thing about Willeford's 4 anti-heroes in "Shark Infested Custard" is how easy they perform and justify horribly amoral acts and how easily we accept the inevitability of those acts. Willeford paints brilliant characters whose ambitions seem to centre round hedonistic habits with no responsibility. Their attitude to and treatment of female partners is brutally impersonal, little evolved from caveman and yet they are amusing and at times fundamentally likeable. Hank's psychological profiling is hilarious. This is a good argument for tighter controls on guns in USA. Tarrantino should buy up the film rights quickly.
Charles Willeford's Best Book November 21, 1997
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Willeford himself considered this his best book and if you read it you'll see why. Technically a novel, the book is really short storie with the same characters--four sociopathic swingers in Miami. Set in the seventies, the plot may have been too risque for its time, but with movies like Pulp Fiction and In the Company of Men invading our pop culture the bleak story is more timely than ever. A masterpiece of crime fiction.
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