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"Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull."His writing is taut and psychologically nuanced like that of the great dime-store novelist Georges Simenon, his novelistic world as profane as Isaac Babel's."Spokesman for those who were angry and beat . . . turbulent, temperamental, and tortured.""A must-read . . . piercing and compelling.""A self-taught writer with an uncanny gift for narrative and dialogue."Roman Polanski Marek Hlasko lived through what he wrote and died of an overdose of solitude and not enough love. Jerzy Kosinski, author of and "A glittering black comedy ... that is equally entertaining and wrenching."