Crime novels
American noir of the 1930s and 40s.
by Cornell Woolrich, Horace McCoy, James M. Cain, Kenneth Fearing, Edward Anderson, and William Lindsay Gresham
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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.
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Crime novels: American noir of the 1930s and 40s.
1997, Library of America, Distributed to the trsde in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
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Crime novels: American noir of the 1930s and 40s.
1997, Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / Nightmare ... / I Married a Dead Man (Library of America)
September 1, 1997, Library of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 983-990).
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This omnibus edition contains the following noir classics:
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCain
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Thieves Like Us, by Edward Anderson
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The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing
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Nightmare Alley, by William Lindsay Gresham
- I Married a Dead Man, by Cornell Woolrich
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