| 词条 | Crooked Little Vein |
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| name = Crooked Little Vein | image = Crooked Little Vein.jpg | image_size = | caption = First US edition cover | author = Warren Ellis | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | genre = Hardboiled detective, transgressive fiction, thriller | publisher = William Morrow | release_date = July 24, 2007 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = 304 pp (first edition, hardback) | isbn = 0-06-072393-9 | isbn_note = (first edition, hardback) | dewey= 813/.6 22 | congress= PS3555.L61717 C76 2007 | oclc= 80361435 }}Crooked Little Vein is the first novel by established comic book writer Warren Ellis, published by William Morrow on July 24, 2007.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The novel is written in the first-person, similar to much of the hardboiled detective genre. The book was based on research material posted on Ellis' websites, mostly odd news items and disturbing pictures from the web that the author had found or had been sent. The novel has been translated into Spanish, German, French, Czech, and Italian.[8] Plot summaryMichael McGill, a burned-out private eye is hired by a corrupt, heroin-addicted White House Chief of Staff to find a second "secret" United States Constitution, which had been lost in a whorehouse by Richard Nixon. What follows is a scavenger hunt across America, exposing its seedier side along the way. McGill is joined by surreal college student side-kick, Trix, who is writing a thesis on sexual fetishes. McGill has to deal with strange events sometimes unrelated to his adventures – he describes himself as a 'shit-magnet', with weird phenomena following him wherever he goes. Critical receptionAbout.com reviewer Jonathan Lasser called Crooked Little Vein "an ace put-up job" and wrote that it was "evidence that freedom is more valuable than repression".[9]Whitney Pastorek, reviewing for Entertainment Weekly takes pains to note that the work "is not for the faint of heart", and that Ellis has "got a bright future outside of the picture books".[10] {{clear}}References1. ^{{cite journal|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,20046868,00.html|title=Crooked Little Vein|journal=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=2009-03-16|last=Pastorek|first=Whitney|date=July 17, 2007}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/16/RVFRRFQIN.DTL&feed=rss.books|title=Science Fiction & Fantasy: Demons, mental and physical, abound|publisher=Sfgate.com|accessdate=2009-03-16|date=August 19, 2007|last=Berry|first=Michael}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=//www.thestar.com/entertainment/Books/article/245450|title=A comic book hero sends up America|publisher=TheStar.com|accessdate=2009-03-16|date=August 12, 2007|first=James|last=Grainger| location=Toronto}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/2008/Lalumiere_RecommendedReading2007.html|title=Claude Lalumière's 2007: Recommended Reading|publisher=Locusmag.com|accessdate=2009-03-16|last=Lalumière|first=Claude|date=January 28, 2008|quote=Politically radical, outrageously extreme, surprisingly tender, and always entertaining, this debut novel mixes the conventions the hardboiled detective story, the political thriller, the sexual odyssey, and magic realism.}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/09/books/bk-weinman9|title=Favorite Books of 2007 - Crime spree|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2009-03-16|last=Weinman|first=Sarah|date=December 9, 2007|quote=And then there is comic king Warren Ellis' debut prose novel, "Crooked Little Vein" (William Morrow), a heart-shredding work of scatological brilliance that gleefully annihilates private-eye tropes and pole-vaults over taste lines.}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bkw-weinman5aug05,1,263706.story?coll=la-headlines-bookreview|archive-url=https://archive.is/20130127204318/http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bkw-weinman5aug05,1,263706.story?coll=la-headlines-bookreview|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2013-01-27|title=When graphic novelists turn to prose, the result is something wicked|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2009-03-16|last=Weinman|first=Sarah}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.esquire.com/the-side/book-review/bookreview081107|title=Normal Isn't Creepy|work=Esquire|accessdate=2009-03-16|last=Klonick|first=Kate|date=August 8, 2007}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.comicus.it/view.php?section=news&id=6587|title=Comunicato Stampa|accessdate=2009-09-30|website=Comicus|date=September 30, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722030852/http://www.comicus.it/view.php?section=news&id=6587|archivedate=July 22, 2011|df=}} 9. ^{{cite web| url = http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/fiction/fr/crookedLittle.htm | title = Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis, Book Review | accessdate = 2014-08-30 }} 10. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,20046868,00.html | work=Entertainment Weekly | title=Book Review: Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis}} External links
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