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Pulp Masters - Softcover

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9780786708734: Pulp Masters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0786708735 ISBN 13: 9780786708734
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Celebrates American pulp fiction, compiling five novellas and one complete novel from the first half of the twentieth century, including crime authors John D. MacDonald, Lawrence Block, and James M. Cain.

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Hearkening back to the time when magazine stands were clogged with pulps and slicks, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg (co-editors of The Big Book of Noir) have assembled stories by John D. MacDonald, James M. Cain, Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Block, Mickey Spillane and Harry Whittington in Pulp Masters. Cain's books "have never been rivaled as expressions of sociopathy, nor as `tabloid poetry,' " gushes Gorman; MacDonald introduced "the working-class and the lower middle-class into the crime novel" and exhibited "the best storytelling skills of his generation"; and Spillane, well, he merely "wrote six of the ten best-selling books of all time," distinguished by their "atmospherics," sex scenes, "right-wing paranoid fantasy" and first-class writing.

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Publisher
Carroll & Graf Pub
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0786708735
ISBN 13 
9780786708734
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
432
Editor
Gorman Edward, Greenberg Martin Harry
Rating
  • 3.79 out of 5 stars
    34 ratings by Goodreads