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Hardboiled America : lurid paperbacks and the masters of noir / Geoffrey O'Brien.

By: Publication details: New York : Da Capo Press, 1997.Edition: Expanded ed., 1st Da Capo Press edDescription: 197 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0306807734
  • 9780306807732
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.5209 21
LOC classification:
  • PS379 .O2 1997
Other classification:
  • 06.22
  • 17.81
  • 18.06
  • 7,26
Contents:
Ch. 1. Icons on Yellow Paper -- Ch. 2. Origins of the Paperbacks -- Ch. 3. A Disposable Gallery -- Ch. 4. Mythologists of the Hardboiled -- Ch. 5. The Paperback Detective and His Discontent -- Ch. 6. Afternoon of the Fifties -- Epilogue: The Long Morning After -- Appendix. The Hardboiled Era: A Checklist, 1920-1960.
Subject: 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 Hardboiled 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index.

Ch. 1. Icons on Yellow Paper -- Ch. 2. Origins of the Paperbacks -- Ch. 3. A Disposable Gallery -- Ch. 4. Mythologists of the Hardboiled -- Ch. 5. The Paperback Detective and His Discontent -- Ch. 6. Afternoon of the Fifties -- Epilogue: The Long Morning After -- Appendix. The Hardboiled Era: A Checklist, 1920-1960.

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 Hardboiled 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.

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