David Goodis

Street of No Return (eBook, ePUB)

A Library of America eBook Classic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In Street of No Return (1954), David Goodis presents a skid row odyssey in which a famous crooner scarred by violence descends into dereliction. From its opening in the freezing wind of a November street corner through its explosive ending, it is imbued with Goodis's deep identification with "the unchartered society of the homeless and the hopeless." Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, Dark Passage, The Moon in the Gutter, and The Burglar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Library of America
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781598534504
• Artikelnr.: 42890245

Autorenporträt

Among the pantheon of American crime writers-those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing-David Goodis was a unique figure. Born in Philadelphia, he brought a jazzy, expressionist style and an almost hallucinatory intensity to his spare, passionate, uncompromising novels of mean streets and doomed people. Though little acknowledged during his lifetime, he has long enjoyed an international cult following, and his works have been adapted for the screen by directors including François Truffaut, Samuel Fuller, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and Jacques Tourneur.