The Best American Noir of the Century
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Ellroy, James; Penzler, Otto;
简介
In his introduction to "The Best American Noir of the Century", James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad.' Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more thorough distillation of American noir fiction. James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, series editor of the annual "The Best American Mystery Stories", mined one hundred years of writing - 1910-2010 - to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's "Pastorale," and its post-war heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane, Patricia Highsmith and William Gay, with many page-turners appearing in the last decade.
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Tod Robbins: 1923 Spurs
James M. Cain: 1928 Pastorale
Steve Fisher: 1938 You'll Always Remember Me
Mackinlay Kantor: 1940 Gun Crazy
Day Keene: 1945 Nothing to Worry About
Dorothy B. Hughes: 1946 The Homecoming
Howard Browne: 1952 Man in the Dark
Mickey Spillane: 1953 The Lady Says Die!
David Goodis: 1953 Professional Man
Charles Beaumont: 1955 The Hunger
Gil Brewer: 1956 The Gesture
Evan Hunter: 1956 The Last Spin
Jim Thompson: 1960 Forever After
Cornell Woolrich: 1968 For The Rest of Her Life
David Morrell: 1972 The Dripping
Patricia Highsmith: 1979 Slowly, Slowly In the Wind
Stephen Greenleaf: 1984 Iris
Brendan DuBois: 1987 A Ticket Out
James Ellroy: 1988 Since I Don't Have You
James Lee Burke: 1991 Texas City 1947
Harlan Ellison: 1993 Mefisto in Onyx
Ed Gorman: 1995 Out There in the Darkness
James Crumley 1996 Hot Springs
Jeffrey Deaver: 1996 The Weekender
Joyce Carol Oates: 1997 Faithless
Tom Franklin: 1998 Poachers
Lawrence Block: 1998 Like a Bone in the Throat
James W. Hall: 1999 Crack
Dennis LeHane: 1999 Running Out of Dog
William Gay: 2000 The Paperhanger
F.X. Toole: 2001 Midnight Emissions
Elmore Leonard: 2002 When The Women Come Out to Dance
Scott Wolven: 2002
Christopher Coake: 2003 All Through the House
Thomas H. Cook: 2005 What She Offered
Andrew Klavan: 2005 Her Lord and Master
Chris Adrian: 2006 Stab
Bradford Morrow: 2006 The Hoarder
Lorenzo Carcaterra: 2007 Missing the Morning Bus