The Best American Noir Of The Century,New

The Best American Noir Of The Century,New

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Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection.New York Journal of BooksIn his introduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hardboiled school of fiction. Its the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. Its the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the alltime 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 mined writings of the past century to find this treasure trove of thirtynine stories. From noirs twentiesera infancy come gems like James M. Cains Pastorale, and its postwar heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, and William Gay, with many pageturners appearing from the past decade.Delightfully devilish . . . A strange trek through the years that includes stories from household names in the hardboiled genre to lesserknown authors who nonetheless can hold their own with the legends.Associated PressJames Ellroy is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. trilogyAmerican Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Bloods a Roverand the L.A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is also the author of The Hillicker Curse, a memoir.Otto Penzler is the founder of the Mysterious Bookshop and Mysterious Press, has won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards, and is series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories.

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