Vintage Paperbacks
“Naked Lunch is a dark, wild ride through the terror of heroin addiction and withdrawal, filled with paranoia, erotica and drug-fueled hallucinations.” —NPR
1st paperback printing, 1966
The Continental Caper presents a collage of texts and images. An extraction of all of the sentences from Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep that refer to (frequently otherwise unnamed) women by characteristics of their hair, interrupted by the author's poetic commentary; reproduced clippings of sixty-three women's hair, which evoke a diversity of texture and tone absent in Chandler's text; instructional hair-styling diagrams; and silhouettes of hair grooming tools. This book remarks on the reductive use of hair as a signifier for character types in mystery novels, and in opposition, observes the richness of hair as material, and the complexity of the skills and tools of the important popular cultural art of hairdressing.
Small paperback, slight moisture-warping lower third of front cover. "New revised edition! Includes never-before-released photos of the author at book signing!" proclaims cover. Very scarce. G