TY - BOOK ID - 74296 TI - Hardboiled America: lurid paperbacks and the masters of noir PY - 1997 SN - 0306807734 9780306807732 PB - New York, N.Y. Da Capo DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - American fiction KW - Illustration of books KW - Noir fiction, American KW - Paperbacks KW - Popular literature KW - Realism in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Illustrations. KW - Publishing KW - History. KW - Realism in literature KW - Neorealism (Literature) KW - Magic realism (Literature) KW - Mimesis in literature KW - Bibliography KW - Paper backs KW - Paper-books KW - Paper-bounds KW - Paper-covers KW - Paperback books KW - Paperbooks KW - Paperbounds KW - Soft-covers KW - Softbound books KW - Softcovers KW - Books KW - History and criticism KW - Illustrations KW - Publishing&delete& KW - History KW - Paperback editions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74296 AB - Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis ... these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. With titles like The Big Sleep, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and Street of the Lost, with racy cover lines like "My gun-butt smashed his skull!" and "Ruthless terror ripped away the mask that hid cold fear", and with some of the most extraordinary cover illustrations ever to grace American literature, these paperbacks held the ingredients of American nightmares. In Hardboiled America -- lavishly illustrated with 135 paperback covers, and expanded with new material on Thompson, Goodis, and others -- Geoffrey O'Brien masterfully explores the art, history, and ideas of the American paperback. ER -