In very good condition; light toning and faint scuffing to wraps; hairline crease at left edge of front cover parallel to spine; short diagonal crease outside corners; points of light rubbing along edges, harder top and bottom of spine; diagonal crease top outside corner first page and page 81; moderate toning to clean interior; binding tight; spine non-creased. 137 numbered pages. 7 x 4 1/4 in. Inv. DIO039.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Nightfall
Publisher: Black Lizard Books, Berkeley
Publication Date: 1987
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0887390293
ISBN 13: 9780887390296
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Kirwan (cover illustration)
Condition: Very Good

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“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”� Geoffrey O’Brien

Jim Vanning has an identity crisis. Is he an innocent artist who just happens to have some very dangerous people interested in him? Or is he a killer on the lam from his last murder� with a satchel worth over $300,000 in tow?

Relentlessly focused, Nightfall may be David Goodis’ most accomplished novel. It is a fiendishly constructed maze, filled with unpredictable pitfalls and human predators whose authenticity only makes them more terrifying.

David Goodis (1917–1967), a former pulp, radio, and Hollywood script writer, is now recognized as a leading author of crime fiction. Besides sojourns in New York City and Hollywood, he lived primarily in Philadelphia.

About the Author

Known as the poet of the losers, David Goodis (1917-1967) was an elusive, reclusive man. At his death he was living in obscurity with no living family. Few photographs of him exist. Dark Passage was his first major work, published in 1946, and opted for a Hollywood film with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

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