An Edge in My Voice (Starblaze Editions) [Paperback]

Harlan Ellison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1985 | Series: Starblaze Editions

At the beginning of the 1980's Harlan Ellison agreed to do a regular column for the LA WEEKLY on the condition that they publish whatever he wrote, without revising it or suggesting rewrites. This collection collects what he wrote under those conditions. He writes in a conversational voice, but he is impassioned, persuasive, abusive and hilarious by turns.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 548 pages
• Publisher: Walsworth Pub Co; 2 Revised edition (October 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089865341X
• ISBN-13: 978-0898653410
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #444,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great buy at any pric, June 28, 2005

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Winchester (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: An Edge in My Voice (Starblaze Editions) (Paperback)

A collect series of columns running the gamet of movie criticisms to automobiles, from friends to foes. This is Ellison at his very best. An absolute must for fans of the written word.

4.0 out of 5 stars Ellison the columnist, January 30, 2004

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Algernon D'Ammassa (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: An Edge in My Voice (Starblaze Editions) (Paperback)

Harlan Ellison has a tremendous gift as an essayist and columnist. At the beginning of the 1980's he agreed to do a regular column for the LA WEEKLY on the condition that they publish whatever he wrote, without revising it or suggesting rewrites. He demanded, and got, the freedom to choose any target, no matter how sensitive to the paper's interests or its readership. A wise editor agreed. The results are collected in this volume.

His columns are not formally structured, but don't be misled into thinking these columns were easy. He writes in a conversational voice, but it is that of a brilliant, nimble conversationalist. Ellison cajoles, caresses, eulogizes, and excoriates. The columns are witty and passionate, and evoke the tensions, the hopes and the lies, of the Reagan Era; of Hollywood, advertising, and journalism in that time; of Ellison's advocacy of the Equal Rights Amendment and gun control. By turns, he is riotously funny, righteously indignant, and capable of issuing a devastating, fatwa-like call to outrage and democratic retribution.

Ellison contends that we should dispense with the notion that every common person is entitled to an opinion; but that every person should be entitled to an informed opinion and the means to express it, as befits a citizen of this nation. In this, it is call not only to outrage but to excellence.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Ellison non-fiction, May 25, 2001

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M. Konczewski (Havertown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: An edge in my voice

For those of you who only know Harlan Ellison from his fiction, you'll enjoy this collection of essays written for the LA "Weekly" newspaper. A very eclectic collection of subjects, from critiques of local restaurants, to an emotional account of his early life, to a hilarious recounting of pranks he's pulled.

Seldom have I been as engaged by a writer's views as I was with Ellsion. I found myself engaged in a mental debate with Ellison on many issues. Don't miss out on this book!