About

Gerald Kersh was born in 1911 in Teddington-on-Thames. He first gave evidence of his iron constitution at the age of four, when after being declared dead of lung congestion, he sat up in his deathbed. It seven he wrote his first novel and published it privately in a limited edition of one copy, bound in his father’s brocade waistcoat. He eventually wrote 1,000 articles, 300 short stories, and 19 novels, including Night and the City (1938). Fter World War II he took up permanent residence in upstate New York.

Gerald Kersh was born in 1911 in Teddington-on-Thames. At seven he wrote his first novel and published it privately in a limited edition of one copy, bound in his father’s brocade waistcoat. He eventually wrote 1,000 articles, 300 short stories, and 19 novels, including Night and the City (1938). There he wrote many critically-acclaimed novels which failed to find a mass audience. He first gave evidence of his iron constitution at the age of four, when after being declared dead of lung congestion, he sat up in his deathbed.

Night and the City is one of the greatest noir novels ever published, Gerald Kersh's stark and unrelenting Night and the City is as bleak an experience as you will ever encounter The protagonist of the novel is the morally empty Harry Fabian, who is determined to become the top wrestling promoter in London uring the course of the novel Fabian is embroiled in various unscrupulous money-making ventures.

All those around him are treated as a means to an end without exception However, while his acts of pimping, blackmail and deception are successful, the proceeds of crime soon slip from his hands The novel has a printed cloth front board with a design by Limehouse Design/Medusa Press, an interior photograph by Jeff Hersch, and a lengthy biographical introduction by renowned editor Paul Duncan.

Edition Details

• Limited to 200 copies.
• Introduction by Paul Duncan.
• Old hardcover editions and movie posters of Night and the City reprinted in color.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands and printed cloth panel.

External Links

• Night and the City. Centipede Press page for Night and the City
• Gerald Kersh (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Gerald Kersh