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

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...



David Thomson has put toghether what seems like a simple biographical dictionary of ficitonal film folk, But these bios are not straight and narrow affairs; they are the creation of a mysterious, secretive narrator, a hidden presence with a dark story to tell.--Washington Post...
