Noir Fiction: Dark Highways

by Paul Duncan

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903047110
• ISBN13: 9781903047118
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Oldcastle Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

SHEDDING LIGHT ON DARK HIGHWAYS

Noir Fiction is immaculately written, well laid out, and packed with more information than would seem possible in just 96 pages. A superb definition of the term noir leads to a discussion of Charles Willeford's concept of the Immobilised Man. An exploration of the writers who lit the noir way then leaves the rest of the book free to detail the primary exponents of the genre. Some we know well (Cain, Woolrich, Thompson, Goodis, Willeford). Others, maybe, are less familiar names (Wolfson, Butler, Kersh, Karp). Paul Duncan's enthusiasm is apparent and infectious throughout. Anyone interested in noir fiction must buy this book. It is, as the series claims, essential.