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The Dead All Have the Same Skin

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442: 139:. It tells the story of a mixed Black-White American, who manages to have a career in "white society" without anyone knowing of his origin; when his black half-brother turns up and tries to blackmail him by threatening to reveal his origin, his life turns into a downward spiral of violence. It was the second book published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, after 27: 162:
in 2008: "Vian wrote two further Vernon Sullivan novels, in which he kicked out all the stops and skidded toward parody; neither has the authority or purchase of the first two. Reminiscent of
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Boris Vian
French
Boris Vian
I Spit on Your Graves
James Sallis
Los Angeles Times
Chester Himes
Jim Thompson
1947 in literature
20th-century French literature
Sallis, James
"Primal noir"
Los Angeles Times
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Boris Vian
I Spit on Your Graves
Vercoquin and the Plankton
Froth on the Daydream
The Dead All Have the Same Skin
Autumn in Peking
The Red Grass
Heartsnatcher
Turmoil in the Swaths
Je voudrais pas crever
Le Déserteur
Fais-moi mal, Johnny
15 chansons d'avant le déluge, suite et fin

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