Hardboiled America: The Lurid Years of Paperbacks

by Geoffrey O'Brien

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442231105
• ISBN13: 9780442231101
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.