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      Waiting for the End of the World

      by Madison Smartt Bell
      Published
      Oct 1986
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      336
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      A photographer descends into New York City's chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest
       
      It's 1982, and Clarence Dmitri Larkin is working as a photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan. The job offers a painfully clear perspective on a city sick with madness, fraught with crime, and coming apart at the seams. Larkin's curiosity soon leads to a subterranean world of all the city's secret dangers, including domestic terrorists with a nuclear device, a serial killer inspired by an occult past, and a disfigured arsonist who just might be the one to burn the whole city down.
       
      Waiting for the End of the World is a gritty portrait of 1980s New York, and an engrossing look at the battle of good versus evil in a city racked with violence and paranoia.

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      General Fiction

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      Serial Killers Terrorists

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      First Edition Oct 1986 Penguin ISBN 0140093303
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      Jan 1985 Ticknor & Fields ISBN 0899193773
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      Dec 2011 Open Road Publishing ISBN B0069W0I5K
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