Title: Pick-up
Description: The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters—a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence—trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best: Willeford’s preferred title for the book was Until I Am Dead. Its bleak vision of life beyond the edge is haunted by rape, racism, alcoholism, suicide, and inescapable poverty, yet shot through with a tenderness and compassion sustained against all odds in a society offering few breaks to its outcasts and misfits.
Subjects: collectionID:Sleazy_pulp, Alcoholics, Fiction, Fiction, erotica, general, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, erotica
Places: San Francisco
Time periods: 1950's