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Hardboiled America Geoffrey O'Brien

Hardboiled America By Geoffrey O'Brien

Hardboiled America by Geoffrey O'Brien


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Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis ... these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, fort

Hardboiled America Summary

Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir by Geoffrey O'Brien

Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis , these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. 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. 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 paperback.

About Geoffrey O'Brien

Geoffrey O'Brien is the author of Floating City: Selected Poems 1978-1995, The Phantom Empire, Dream Time, and other books. Executive editor of The Library of America, he also edited The Reader's catalogue.

Table of Contents

* Icons on Yellow Paper * Origins of the Paperbacks * A Disposable Gallery * Mythologists of the Hardboiled * The Paperback Detective and his Discontent * Afternoon of the Fifties * The Long Morning After * The Hardboiled Era: A Checklist, 1920-1960

Additional information

NLS9780306807732
9780306807732
0306807734
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir by Geoffrey O'Brien
New
Paperback
Hachette Books
19970322
214
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