Joel Rose 
Kill Kill Faster Faster (May
1997) About the Author Bibliography Joel Rose
Kill Kill Faster Faster (May
1997)
About the Author
Bibliography
Kill
Kill Faster Faster
Absolutely fuckin' brilliant... Kill Kill Faster Faster is a
modern urban masterpiece pulsating with wit, energy, and empathy.
Forget all the tiresome eighties tales of yuppie excess, this
book is destined to be the classic New York novel. Brash, violent, sexy, ugly and
beautiful, it demands to be picked up and read. Then just try putting it down.' Irvine
Welsh
'Joel Rose has written a raw, compelling novel... Kill Kill
Faster Faster is a New York tragedy, streetwise, stylish and desperately, savagely sad'
Patrick McGrath
'In Kill Kill Faster Faster, Joel Rose takes a great idea - a
contemporary, urban rags to riches narrative - and stomps the shit out of it until it's
bleeding severely and pleading for mercy. This beating should have taken place years ago.'
Rick Moody
'An audacious and thrilling novel that is as dynamically
stylish as it is brutally authentic. Joel Rose has written a necessary, unforgettable
book.' Dennis Cooper
'What Joel Rose has done in Kill Kill Faster Faster strikes me
as quite a miraculous feat; he's written a crime novel that for once doesn't sound like
any other crime novel ever written. Jazz/rap/vernacular, it just keeps popping in your
head; as hypnotic as it is terrifying... Kill Kill is a potent pop/literary masterpiece.'
Tom Dehaven
'I guarantee that any9one who likes to read of crime, sex and
violence told at a breakneck pace will gulp Joel Rose's new novel in a single bite.' Eddie
Bunker
'Classic hard-boiled detective fiction' Eddie Gibb, The
Guardian
'Kill Kill Faster Faster is the story of a personality in its
final throes of existence and you've just thrilled to the death agony as if it were your
own... It is a crime novel like no other, a love story like no other, and the hard-boiled
yet lyrical masterful modern tragedy that so many other nineties novels have tried but
failed to be.' Alex Linklater, The Herald
About The Author
Joel Rose grew up on the streets of New York, and still lives in
the city with his wife, the French novelist, Catherine Texier, and their two daughters
Celine and Chloe.
Joel Rose's first novel, Kill the Poor, spent four months on the Voice Literary Supplement
best seller list. He is also the author of La Pacifica, a graphic novel, and the graphic
non-fiction The Big Book of Thugs. He has also edited two collections of short stories,
Love is Strange and Between C & D: new writing from the lower east side fiction
magazine.
His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, New York Newsday,
and various other publications. His screenplay Dead Weekend was produced in 1995, and he
has written for several television show, including Miami Vice and Kojak. For a long time
his television writing partner was the late, great Nuyorican playwright Miguel Pinero.
Joel Rose was also an editor at D.C. Comics where he wrote stories for both the Superman
and Batman comic strips.
He has been awarded grants form the National endowment for the Arts and the New York
Foundation for the Arts. He
established and edited the legendary literary magazine Between C & D, which will be
relaunched in Autumn 1997.
