Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald: A Literary Reference

by Matthew J. Bruccoli

Book Overview

The action is violent, the characters are tough, the atmosphere's dark, the tone impersonal, the speech colloquial, and the voice of the author, whatever his origins or background, authentically American. Hard-boiled crime fiction, which captured the national imagination in the bitter, hard-bitten 1930s and flourished for many decades after, is a leading example of endemically American literary prose. Certainly, in the work of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786710292
• ISBN13: 9780786710294
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.9"