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- catalog abstract ""This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1950s, 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. Far from formulaic, they are ambitious works which bend the rules of genre fiction to their often experimental purposes"--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "American noir of the 1930s and 40s".
- catalog alternative "Big clock.".
- catalog alternative "I married a dead man.".
- catalog alternative "Nightmare alley.".
- catalog alternative "Postman always rings.".
- catalog alternative "They shoot horses, don't they?".
- catalog alternative "Thieves like us.".
- catalog contributor b10353602.
- catalog contributor b10353603.
- catalog contributor b10353604.
- catalog contributor b10353605.
- catalog contributor b10353606.
- catalog contributor b10353607.
- catalog contributor b10353608.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1950s, 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. Far from formulaic, they are ambitious works which bend the rules of genre fiction to their often experimental purposes"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 983-990).".
- catalog description "The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.".
- catalog extent "990 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Crime novels.".
- catalog identifier "1883011469 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Crime novels.".
- catalog isPartOf "Library of America 94".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA,".
- catalog relation "Crime novels.".
- catalog subject "813/.087208052 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Crime Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories, American.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories.".
- catalog subject "Noir fiction, American.".
- catalog subject "PS648.D4 C695 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.".
- catalog title "American noir of the 1930s and 40s".
- catalog title "Crime novels : American noir of the 1930s and 40s / [selected and edited [by] Robert Polito].".
- catalog type "text".