Item #120433 Cool Hand Luke. Donn PEARCE.
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965 (first edition).

Octavo, [iv], 304 pages.

Blue cloth lettered in yellow on the spine; extremities very lightly rubbed; essentially a fine copy with the unclipped lightly scuffed dustwrapper with slight tears, creases and chips to the edges.

'It's been said that if Donn Pearce is remembered at all, it won't be for having written "Cool Hand Luke", his acclaimed but little-read novel about his life as a convict on a southern chain gang, but for the classic movie based on it. Starring Paul Newman in the Oscar-nominated title role, "Cool Hand Luke" (1967) was both a critical and commercial success. An outstanding film across the board, it brought us one of the screen's most compelling anti-heroes and one of the all-time great movie lines: "What we've got here is failure to communicate." Nominated for Best Picture, "Cool Hand Luke" was one of the key films of the Sixties. Many consider it a masterpiece. Donn Pearce is not one of them. "I seem to be the only guy in the United States who doesn't like the movie," Pearce told the "Miami Herald" in 1989. "Everyone had a whack at it. They screwed it up 99 different ways''' (Internet Movie Database).

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