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Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
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- Seller Notes
- “like new but missing dust jacket”
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780195084993
- Book Title
- Hardboiled : an Anthology of American Crime Stories
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 26.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 540 Pages
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What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it....He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes." 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 evolutiuon of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett's 1925 tour de force "The Scorched Face," in which the disappearance of two sisters leads Hammett's never-named detective, the Continental Op, straight into a web of sexual blackmail amidst the West Coast elite, to Ed Gorman's 1992 "The Long Silence After," a gripping and powerful rendezvous involving a middle class insurance executive, a Chicago streetwalker, and a loaded .38. Other delectable contributions include "Brush Fire" by James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice , Raymond Chandler's "I'll Be Waiting," where, for once, the femme fatale is not blond but a redhead, a Ross Macdonald mystery starring Macdonald's most famous creation, the cryptic Lew Archer, and "The Screen Test of Mike Hammer" by the one and only Micky Spillane. The hard-boiled cult has more in common with the legendary lawmen of the Wild West than with the gentleman and lady sleuths of traditional drawing room mysteries, and this direct line of descent is on brilliant display in two of the most subtle and tautly written stories in the collection, Elmore Leonard's "3:10 to Yuma" and John D. MacDonald's "Nor Iron Bars." Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner 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 our heroes and oursleves.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195084993
ISBN-13
9780195084993
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88181
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hardboiled : an Anthology of American Crime Stories
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
540 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps648.D4h375 1995
Reviews
"These 36 selections represent the best of the genre's short form....A wonderfully evil collection."--Booklist, "Ranges from Dashiell Hammett and W.R. Burnett in the 1920s, when thehard-boiled style emerged as a recognizable subgenre of crime fiction, to JamesEllroy and Lawrence in the '90s....A thoughtful introduction salutes the role ofSpillane in revitalizing the genre."--Los Angeles Times Book Review, "Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian, present[s] seven decades of grimly realistic tales, each 'so hard-boiled it could break your teeth.'"--The Wall Street Journal"Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff. "I'll Be Waiting" is Raymond Chandler's most subtly melancholy tale, and "Three-Ten to Yuma" reminds us that even when Elmore Leonard wrote Westerns, he never saw a white hat he didn't want to soil."--Newsweek"Ranges from Dashiell Hammett and W.R. Burnett in the 1920s, when the hard-boiled style emerged as a recognizable subgenre of crime fiction, to James Ellroy and Lawrence in the '90s....A thoughtful introduction salutes the role of Spillane in revitalizing the genre."--Los Angeles Times Book Review"No one knows more about the hard-boiled American mystery than Pronzini and Adrian. Here's a book that belongs on every reader's shelf--after they've enjoyed a week or two of pure pleasure savoring its contents."--Edward D. Hoch, editor The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories"The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter how long your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one."--Kirkus Reviews, "Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian, present[s] seven decades of grimly realistic tales, each 'so hard-boiled it could break your teeth.'"--The Wall Street Journal "Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff. "I'll Be Waiting" is Raymond Chandler's most subtly melancholy tale, and "Three-Ten to Yuma" reminds us that even when Elmore Leonard wrote Westerns, he never saw a white hat he didn't want to soil."--Newsweek "Ranges from Dashiell Hammett and W.R. Burnett in the 1920s, when the hard-boiled style emerged as a recognizable subgenre of crime fiction, to James Ellroy and Lawrence in the '90s....A thoughtful introduction salutes the role of Spillane in revitalizing the genre."--Los Angeles Times BookReview "No one knows more about the hard-boiled American mystery than Pronzini and Adrian. Here's a book that belongs on every reader's shelf--after they've enjoyed a week or two of pure pleasure savoring its contents."--Edward D. Hoch, editorThe Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories "The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter how long your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one."--Kirkus Reviews, "The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter how long your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one."--Kirkus Reviews, "Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff. "I'll BeWaiting" is Raymond Chandler's most subtly melancholy tale, and "Three-Ten toYuma" reminds us that even when Elmore Leonard wrote Westerns, he never saw awhite hat he didn't want to soil."--Newsweek, "No one knows more about the hard-boiled American mystery than Pronziniand Adrian. Here's a book that belongs on every reader's shelf--after they'veenjoyed a week or two of pure pleasure savoring its contents."--Edward D. Hoch,editor The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, "These 36 selections represent the best of the genre's short form....Awonderfully evil collection."--Booklist, "Ranges from Dashiell Hammett and W.R. Burnett in the 1920s, when the hard-boiled style emerged as a recognizable subgenre of crime fiction, to James Ellroy and Lawrence in the '90s....A thoughtful introduction salutes the role of Spillane in revitalizing the genre."--Los Angeles Times BookReview, "No one knows more about the hard-boiled American mystery than Pronzini and Adrian. Here's a book that belongs on every reader's shelf--after they've enjoyed a week or two of pure pleasure savoring its contents."--Edward D. Hoch, editor The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, "The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter howlong your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one."--KirkusReviews, "Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian, present[s] seven decades of grimly realistic tales, each 'so hard-boiled it could break your teeth.'"--The Wall Street Journal, "Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, edited by BillPronzini and Jack Adrian, present[s] seven decades of grimly realistic tales,each 'so hard-boiled it could break your teeth.'"--The Wall StreetJournal, "Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff. "I'll Be Waiting" is Raymond Chandler's most subtly melancholy tale, and "Three-Ten to Yuma" reminds us that even when Elmore Leonard wrote Westerns, he never saw a white hat he didn't want to soil."--Newsweek, "Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian, present[s] seven decades of grimly realistic tales, each 'so hard-boiled it could break your teeth.'"--The Wall Street Journal "Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff. "I'll Be Waiting" is Raymond Chandler's most subtly melancholy tale, and "Three-Ten to Yuma" reminds us that even when Elmore Leonard wrote Westerns, he never saw a white hat he didn't want to soil."--Newsweek "Ranges from Dashiell Hammett and W.R. Burnett in the 1920s, when the hard-boiled style emerged as a recognizable subgenre of crime fiction, to James Ellroy and Lawrence in the '90s....A thoughtful introduction salutes the role of Spillane in revitalizing the genre."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "No one knows more about the hard-boiled American mystery than Pronzini and Adrian. Here's a book that belongs on every reader's shelf--after they've enjoyed a week or two of pure pleasure savoring its contents."--Edward D. Hoch, editor The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories "The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter how long your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one."--Kirkus Reviews, " Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories , edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian, present[s] seven decades of grimly realistic tales, each 'so hard-boiled it could break your teeth.'"-- The Wall Street Journal "Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff. "I'll Be Waiting" is Raymond Chandler's most subtly melancholy tale, and "Three-Ten to Yuma" reminds us that even when Elmore Leonard wrote Westerns, he never saw a white hat he didn't want to soil."-- Newsweek "Ranges from Dashiell Hammett and W.R. Burnett in the 1920s, when the hard-boiled style emerged as a recognizable subgenre of crime fiction, to James Ellroy and Lawrence in the '90s....A thoughtful introduction salutes the role of Spillane in revitalizing the genre."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "No one knows more about the hard-boiled American mystery than Pronzini and Adrian. Here's a book that belongs on every reader's shelf--after they've enjoyed a week or two of pure pleasure savoring its contents."--Edward D. Hoch, editor The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories "The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter how long your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one."-- Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
1995
Lccn
94-043055
Dewey Decimal
813/.0872/08
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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