Bitter end

Bitter end may refer to:

Bitter End (song)

Bitter End was the second single released off 'Love/Hate' on 8 October 2007 by Manchester band Nine Black Alps.

Song

The song shows a very different side to Nine Black Alps. The song is driven by an acoustic guitar rather than the loud, distorted guitars that were so frequently used on their debut Everything Is.

Video

The video was shot in Wimbledon and shows the band playing the song. There are also clips of teenagers who appear to live in the woods doing different activities throughout the video. The video was also a nominee for Best telecine in a video in the UK Music Video Awards which took place in London's West End Odeon.

Track listing

CD Format

7" Vinyl Part 1

A Side - Bitter End

B Side - Daytime Habit

7" Vinyl Part 2

A Side - Bitter End

B Side - Destination Nowhere

Bitter End (novella)

"Bitter End" is the first Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, originally published in the November 1940 issue of The American Magazine. The story is a re-working of Stout's Tecumseh Fox story Bad for Business, published later that year.

"Bitter End" first appeared in book form in the posthumous limited-edition collection Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe edited by Michael Bourne, published in 1977 by James A. Rock & Co., Publishers. It subsequently appeared in Death Times Three, published by Bantam Books in 1985.

Background

Rex Stout's publisher Farrar & Rinehart scheduled the Tecumseh Fox novel Bad for Business for November 1940 release. Like many of Stout's stories, the book was offered to The American Magazine for advance publication in abridged form.

"To Stout's surprise," wrote biographer John McAleer, "Sumner Blossom, publisher of The American Magazine, refused to pursue the Fox piece but offered Stout double payment if he would convert the story into a Wolfe novella. To Blossom's surprise, and maybe his own, Rex effected the transformation in eleven days. As he explained to me later, by then he had already become deeply committed to the war against Hitler and needed the money."