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Hardboiled America

By Geoffrey O'Brien

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Hardboiled America

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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 mask that hid cold fear," and with some of the most extraordinary cover illustrations ever to grace American literature, these paperbacks held the ingredients of American nightmares. In Harboiled America—lavishly illustrated with 135 paperback covers, and expanded with new material on Thompson, Goodis, and others—Geoffrey O'Brien masterfully explores the art, history, and ideas of the American paperback.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
1997-03-22
Publication Date:
1997-04-01
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0306807734
ISBN13:
9780306807732
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
358 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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