You might also like

More about Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 71 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.

Book details

• Full title: Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s
• Author: Cornell Woolrich, James M. Cain, Kenneth Fearing
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 990
• EAN: 9781883011468
• ISBN: 1883011469
• ID: 12471528
• Publisher: Library of America
• Weight: 635 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 135 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: September 1997

Trending among others

---

---

---