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Jim Thompson 56252, Patricia Highsmith 20959, Charles Willeford 290024, David Goodis 140089, Chester Himes 269342 - Crime Novels. American Noir of the 1950s: Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me / Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley / Charles Willeford - Pick-Up / David Goodis - Down There / Chester Himes - The Real Cool Killers

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Library of America. Hardcover. Pp: 892. This adventurouscollection 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 magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore 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. The raw power of their vernacular style has profoundly influenced contemporary American culture and writing. ISBN: 9781883011499. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
EUR 19.50 [Appr.: US$ 20.78 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 3281] Book number 2563681

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