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David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #225)

Dark Passage / Nightfall / The Burglar / The Moon in the Gut / Street of No Return

ISBN-13: 9781598531480

Contributor(s): Robert Polito

Subjects: Crime & Mystery

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Library Of America

Publication Date: 29-03-2012

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£35.99

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About the book

Among the pantheon of American crime writers - those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing - David Goodis was a unique figure. Now, The Library of America and editor Robert Polito team up to celebrate the full scope of Goodis's signature style with this landmark volume collecting five great novels from the height of his career. Goodis (1917-1967) was a Philadelphia-born pulp expressionist who brought a jazzy style to his spare, passionate novels of mean streets and doomed protagonists: an innocent man railroaded for his wife's murder (Dark Passage); an artist whose life turns nightmarish because of a cache of stolen money (Nightfall); a dockworker seeking to comprehend his sister's brutal death (The Moon in the Gutter); a petty criminal derailed by irresistible passion (The Burglar); and a famous crooner scarred by violence and descending into dereliction (Street of No Return). Long a cult favorite, Goodis now takes his place alongside Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in the pantheon of classic American crime writers.

David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #225)

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