Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir OBrien GeoffreyPaperback
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir OBrien GeoffreyPaperback Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great…
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Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir OBrien GeoffreyPaperback
Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis ...
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 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.