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Crime Novels: American Noir Of The 1930S & 40S (Loa #94): The Postman Alway...
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- ISBN
- 9781883011468
- Book Title
- Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s And 40s (LOA #94) Pt. I : The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / the Big Clock / Nightmare Alley / I Married a Dead Man
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Library of America, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Crime, Noir
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 990 Pages
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"The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States." -- Ed Gorman Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied, innovative and profoundly influential body of writing. The eleven novels in The Library of America's adventurous two-volume collection taps deep roots in the American literary imagination, exploring themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating psyche. With visionary and often subversive force they create a dark and violent mythology out of the most commonplace elements of modern life. James M. Cain's pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham's controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Disturbing, poetic, anarchic, punctuated by terrifying bursts of rage and paranoia and powerfully evocative of the lost and desperate sidestreets of American life, these are underground classics now made widely and permanently available. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1883011469
ISBN-13
9781883011468
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2153680
Product Key Features
Book Title
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s And 40s (LOA #94) Pt. I : The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / the Big Clock / Nightmare Alley / I Married a Dead Man
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Crime, Noir
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
990 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Ps648.D4c695 1997
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-002485
Dewey Decimal
813/.087208052
Series
Library of America Noir Collection
Dewey Edition
21
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