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Crime novels : American noir of the 1950s.

text Crime novels : American noir of the 1950s.

Summary
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp maga... Read more
Contents

The killer inside me / Jim Thompson -- The talented Mr. Ripley / Patricia Highsmith -- Pick-up / Charles Willeford -- Down there / David Goodis -- The real cool killers / Chester Himes.

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892 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher
Library of America 1997

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Woodmere (Main Branch) FIC CRI in Adult Fiction Available

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