David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s And 50s (LOA #225) Dark Passage / Nightfall / the Burglar / the Moon in the Gutter / Street of No Return

Name: David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s And 50s (LOA #225) Dark Passage / Nightfall / the Burglar / the Moon in the Gutter / Street of No Return
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ISBN: 9781598531480

ISBN-10: 1598531484

ISBN-13: 9781598531480

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert Polito

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In 1997 The Library of America's Crime Novels: American Noirgathered, in two volumes, eleven classic works of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s--among them David Goodis's moody and intensely lyrical masterpiece Down There, adapted by François Truffaut for his 1960 film Shoot the Piano Player. Now, The Library of America and editor Robert Polito team up again 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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Library of America, The
Publication date: 3/29/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 848
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.15" long x 1.27" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Robert Polito is the author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar Award.