
A new edition of this landmark metafictional novel brings acclaimed film critic and writer David Thomson to a new generation of readers

Vintage Books

American

An inspired commentary on film noir - a biographical dictionary of characters and a dazzlingly original work of fiction. Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - these are just a few of the nearly 100 names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose...

