Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides
ISBN-13: 9780857302564
Contributor(s): James Sallis
Subject: Literary Essays
Publisher Imprint: No Exit Press
Publication Date: 22-11-2018
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£9.99
About the book
Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight was showing around the seams of American society and visions quite in contrast to the sanctioned version drifted to the surface in books one bought off racks in drugstores and bus stations - stark, bonelike, disturbing books.