Long out-of-print major work from a master of classic American crime fiction
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One of the greatest yet least appreciated American post-war crime writers, David Goodis was born in Philadelphia in 1917, and wrote his first novel, Retreat from Oblivion, in 1938. His big break came in 1946 with the publication of Dark Passage, which was made into a film starring Bogart and Bacall. During his life he wrote many short stories, film treatments, scripts for radio serials such as Superman, and seventeen novels including Shoot the Pianist (filmed by Truffaut). He died in 1967.
His books are a lethally potent cocktail of surreal description, brilliant language, cracker barrel philosophy and gripping obsession -- Adrian Wootton, BFI ?You must buy this book ? you will read it in a couple of hours * but you will want to read it again and again and again? Word *
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