Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306807732ISBN-10:306807734UPC:9780306807732Book Category:Literary CriticismSize:8.99 x 5.93 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCJY506Z4X
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir
Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis ... these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. With titles like The Big Sleep, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and Street of the Lost, with racy cover lines like "My gun-butt smashed his skull!" and "Ruthless terror ripped away the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306807732ISBN-10:306807734UPC:9780306807732Book Category:Literary CriticismSize:8.99 x 5.93 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCJY506Z4X
Geoffrey O'Brien is the author of Floating City: Selected Poems 1978-1995, The Phantom Empire, Dream Time, and other books. Executive editor of The Library of America, he also edited The Reader's Catalog.
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