Binding: Paperback
Description: What are the ingredients of a hard - boiled detective story? ` Savagery style sophistication sleuthing and sex said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blonde a jealous husband and of course a tough - but - tender P. I. - the likes of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. These elements typifying the gritty strain of American crime fiction termed `hard boiled' have profoundly influenced the public's imagination both through the literary mainstream and through the many films based on hard - boiled fiction (The Maltese Falcon Double Indemnity The Postman Always Rings Twice etc.). Hard - boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty - six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form from its beginnings in the 1920s to the present day. It contains stories by Dashiel Hammett Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain who wrote in the legendary pulp magazines of the 1920s to 1940s; as well as works by Mickey Spillane Helen Nielse Ross Mac Donald and Elmore Leonard who wrote in digest - sized magazines during the 1950s and 1960s. Ten stories from the 1970s to 1990s by writers such as Ed Gorman Lawrence Block and Faye Kellerman demonstrate how the hard - boiled tradition has evolved over time. Compellingly and compulsively readable Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a pageturner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film but how we see ourselves and our heroes.
Title: Hard - Boiled An Anthology Of American Crime Stories
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780195103533
Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Date: 5/29/1997
Category: Short Stories