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Crime novels : American noir of the 1950s. [print]

Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 95.Publication details: New York : Library of America : (c)1997.; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA, (c)1997.Description: 892 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781883011499
Other title:
  • American noir of the 1950s
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS648
  • PS648.C929.C756 1997
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Contents:
Jim Thompson -- The talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith -- Pick-up Charles Willeford -- Down there David Goodis -- The real cool killers Chester Himes.
Subject: This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, 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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"Robert Polito selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--5th preliminary pages.

The killer inside me Jim Thompson -- The talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith -- Pick-up Charles Willeford -- Down there David Goodis -- The real cool killers Chester Himes.

This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, 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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