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Title
Hard-boiled: Anthology of American Crime Stories
ISBN
0195084993
EAN
9780195084993
Type
Hardback
Binding
Hardback
Date of Publication
19950518
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Release Title
Hard-boiled: Anthology of American Crime Stories
Artist
Pronzini, Bill
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Publication Year
1995
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Hard-Boiled: Anthology of American Crime Stories
Item Height
210mm
Author
Jack Adrian, Bill Pronzini
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
Literary Theory, Books
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
774g
Number of Pages
540 Pages

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What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex, said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it....He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes. Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolutiuon of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett's 1925 tour de force The Scorched Face, in which the disappearance of two sisters leads Hammett's never-named detective, the Continental Op, straight into a web of sexual blackmail amidst the West Coast elite, to Ed Gorman's 1992 The Long Silence After, a gripping and powerful rendezvous involving a middle class insurance executive, a Chicago streetwalker, and a loaded .38. Other delectable contributions include Brush Fire by James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Raymond Chandler's I'll Be Waiting, where, for once, the femme fatale is not blond but a redhead, a Ross Macdonald mystery starring Macdonald's most famous creation, the cryptic Lew Archer, and The Screen Test of Mike Hammer by the one and only Micky Spillane. The hard-boiled cult has more in common with the legendary lawmen of the Wild West than with the gentleman and lady sleuths of traditional drawing room mysteries, and this direct line of descent is on brilliant display in two of the most subtle and tautly written stories in the collection, Elmore Leonard's 3:10 to Yuma and John D. MacDonald's Nor Iron Bars. Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities, it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film, but how we see our heroes and oursleves.

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Oxford University Press
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9780195084993
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Book Title
Hard-Boiled: Anthology of American Crime Stories
Author
Jack Adrian, Bill Pronzini
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory, Books
Publication Year
1995
Number of Pages
540 Pages

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210mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
774g

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Bill Pronzini, Jack Adrian

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