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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s (Library of America)
Crime Novels American Noir of the 1930s 40s - Library of America
Author: Horace McCoy, Kenneth Fearing, William Lindsay Gresham, Cornell Woolrich, James M. Cain, Edward Anderson
Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, American noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied, innovative, and profoundly influential body of writing.  This adventurous volume presents six early classics:  James M. Cain’s pioneering 1934 novel of murder and adultery, The Postman Always Rings...  more »; Horace McCoy’s turbulent, experimental portrayal of a dance marathon, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?; Edward Anderson’s Thieves Like Us, a stark odyssey of fugitive Oklahoma outlaws; Kenneth Fearing’s The Big Clock, a crime thriller that unfolds in the corrupt, cynical world of a publishing corporation; Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham’s devastating portrait of a doomed carnival hustler; and Cornell Woolrich’s I Married a Dead Man, an intricate tale of switched identities set in the anxious suburbs.  Disturbing, poetic, anarchic, punctuated by terrifying bursts of rage and paranoia, and powerfully evocative of the lost and desperate side streets of American life, these are underground classics now for the first time made widely and permanently available.  A companion volume is devoted to the 1950s.
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ISBN-13: 9781883011468
ISBN-10: 1883011469
Publication Date: 9/1/1997
Pages: 990
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Publisher: Library of America
Book Type: Hardcover
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