Download or read book Pulp According to David Goodis written by Jay A. Gertzman and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp According to David Goodis starts with six characteristics of 1950s pulp noir that fascinated mass-market readers, making them wish they were the protagonist, and yet feel relief that they were not. His thrillers are set in motion by suppressed guilt, sexual frustrations, explosions of violence, and the inaccessible nature of intimacy. Extremely valuable is a gangster-infested urban setting. Uniquely, Goodis saw a still-vibrant community solidarity down there. Another contribution was sympathy for the gang boss, doomed by his very success. He dramatizes all this in the stark language of the Philadelphia’s “streets of no return.” The book delineates the noir profundity of the author’s work in the context of Franz Kafka’s narratives. Goodis’ precise sense of place, and painful insights about the indomitability of fate, parallel Kafka’s. Both writers mix realism, the disorienting, and the dreamlike; both dwell on obsession and entrapment; both describe the protagonist’s degeneration. Tragically, belief in obligations, especially family ones, keep independence out of reach. Other elements covered in this critical analysis of Goodis’s work include his Hollywood script-writing career; his use of Freud, Arthur Miller, Faulkner and Hemingway; his obsession with incest; and his “noble loser’s” indomitable perseverance. Praise for PULP ACCORDING TO DAVID GOODIS: “This was a fascinating read. [Gertzman] appears as an expert not only on Goodis’s body of work but on the pulp era of fiction in general, mid-twentieth-century American history, Philadelphia history, literary analysis, and a litany of other subjects. The book is stylishly written and well designed for reaching a broader, nonacademic audience interested in the pulp’s history, role in American culture, and meaning. Frankly, the crime fiction community needs more books like this!” —Chris Rhatigan, editor, publisher, and writer of hard-boiled and noir literature “Jay Gertzman is one of those rare maverick critics with the courage to explore the dark alleys of American literature, and to report back with commendable honesty about what he has found. His book Pulp According to David Goodis is a perfect match of critic to author, and it belongs in the collections of universities hoping to be regarded as major.” —Michael Perkins, author of Evil Companions, Dark Matter, and The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature “The most comprehensive Goodis study yet. Gertzman culls the files, brings everything together and then some. Not only essential reading for all Goodis obsessives but an excellent introduction to one of noir’s greatest writers.” —Woody Haut, author Pulp Culture: Hard-boiled Fiction and the Cold War, Heartbreak and Vine, and Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction

Download or read book The Blonde on the Street Corner written by David Goodis and published by Serpents Tail. This book was released on 1954 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out-of-print major work from a master of classic American crime fiction

Download or read book The Forbitten written by J. L. Miller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is simple, right? You are born, you live, and you die. Or at least that is the way it is suppose to happen. But what if...what if you get a second chance, to live a life that was taken from you, the life that you were supposed to live? the life that you have no memory of, and what it if you had known love, real love? Would you give it a second chance, or would you consider loyalty for family over true love. Being a teenager isn't supposed to be complicated, right? But when Abigail Watson's mother marries a stranger and moves her across country into the manor, a place that would be fitting for Dracula, Abby soon starts to have nightmares. Abby then meets a mysterious boy, who seems to know all about Abby and the family that she has been inducted into. From the moment she meets Ethan she feels connected to him, there is something about him, so familiar, so safe. But Ethan has secrets, secrets he doesn't want to share, and he will have to make a choice if he wants to keep history from repeating itself.

Download or read book Humour for All Ages Occasions and Celebrations written by Mel Bergstresser and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been in a situation where you searched for some humor or wanted to share something humorous with someone and couldnt think of anything or didnt have any humorous sources handy? I have been in this situation many, many times when I wanted to share some personal humor and suitable joke or some interesting story for use as a Master of Ceremonies, so I decided to develop a collection of not only humor but also puns, interesting stories etc., covering 36 subjects that could be used for almost every occasion possible. Enjoy the last of the funny, weird, but good clean jokes, puns and interesting stories!

Download or read book Trailsman 251 The written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skye Fargo is caught between a gold rock and a hard case. Stranded in Utah by a sandstorm, Skye Fargo chances upon a remote cabin—the home of a lonely widow caught between two battling factions. Seems some hombre named Charlie Vrittan promised a passel of settlers shares in a gold mine if they’d build a town in his name. Once the labor was complete, he and his men kept the riches and paid the workers in hot lead. Now a war is brewing in the desert. Sheltered underground in abandoned mines, the people Vrittan cheated—called Dirt Breathers—prepare to give him and his Air Breathers the fight of their lives. But both sides have the Trailsman to reckon with. And if he has his way, the only thing anybody is going to be breathing is gunsmoke.

Download or read book Mississippi Writers written by Dorothy Abbott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South

Download or read book The Noir Thriller written by Lee Horsley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.

Download or read book Cassidy s Girl written by David Goodis and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Goodis (1917–1967) was an American crime fiction writer noted for his noir novels and short stories. His 1951 novel CASSIDY'S GIRL draws on his life in Philadelphia, where he prowled the underside of city life, frequenting nightclubs and seedy bars. He translated his experiences into a string of dark crime novels. CASSIDY'S GIRL sold more than a million copies upon its release.

Download or read book Elizabeth Spencer Novels Stories LOA 344 written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her centennial, a contemporary of Flannery O’Connor and Harper Lee joins the Library of America with a volume that restores to print her searing novel about the late Jim Crow South Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This Library of America volume brings together the very best of her writing--three novels and nineteen stories--from a career spanning more than six decades. The Voice at the Back Door (1957), greeted by The New Yorker as "a practically perfect novel" and here restored to print, portrays small-town life in Mississippi during the late Jim Crow era and the self-interest and hatred that kept injustice firmly in place. Published two years after the Emmett Till lynching, it captures the spitting vehemence of its white characters' speech and may have been proven too potentially controversial for the Pulitzer board (which awarded no prize in 1957). Also included in this volume are The Light in the Piazza (1960), Spencer's most famous work, a deftly poignant comedy about Americans abroad that was adapted to the screen by Guy Green; and a second superb Italian novella, Knights and Dragons (1965), reminiscent of Henry James's novels in its atmosphere, interiority, and concern with transplanted Americans. Spencer excelled in the short story form and this volume presents a career-spanning selection by editor Michael Gorra that ranges from the early "First Dark" (1959), a kind of ghost story about a spectral oversized house in a Southern town, to the valedictory "The Wedding Visitor" (2013), about the refusal to let the all-enveloping world of place, family, and childhood define one's adult life. Spencer's special focus was families, and few writers have so brilliantly plumbed the passions that unite them and the inner upheavals that can tear them apart.

Download or read book Body and Soul written by Peter Stanfield and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside extensive, thought provoking, and lively analysis of some of the most popular jazz and blues songs of the 20th century, this text contains new work on blackface minstrelsy in early sound movies, racial representation and censorship, torch singers and torch songs, the Hollywood Left, and hot jazz.

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Download or read book Reckless Honor written by Tonya Burrows and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Luc Cavalier has only ever cared about three things: sex, booze, and the dangerous missions he undertakes with HORNET. Laissez les bons temps rouler is more than a Mardi Gras motto—it’s the way he lives his life. But all that changes the night he rescues Dr. Claire Oliver from deadly mercenaries. Now he can’t get the gorgeous blond virologist out of his head. Claire is running for her life. Someone wants her antiviral research and they’re willing to kill anyone and everyone to get it. She has no one to turn to except a womanizing Cajun with a silver tongue and devastating smile. But when an ultra-deadly virus decimates the Niger Delta, saving Claire and her research becomes the least of HORNET’s concerns. The virus has all the markings of a bioweapon and Nigeria is only the testing grounds... Each book in the HORNET series is STANDALONE: * SEAL of Honor * Honor Reclaimed * Broken Honor * Code of Honor * Reckless Honor * Honor Avenged

Download or read book Cumulative Paperback Index 1939 1959 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Private Investigating written by Steven Kerry Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The gumshoe go-torevised and updated." Easy-to-use and fantastically inclusive, this is the book on private investigation, whether you want to establish yourself as a professional or just use some of the tools of a P.I. for your own business. Youll get the low-down on pre-employment research, tenant screening, adoption searches, safeguarding yourself from investigation, and much more. Completely revised with all-new chapters on skip tracing and due diligence searches Skills and techniques for average citizens, as well as professionals Includes the most usefuland little-knowndatabases

Download or read book The Burglar written by David Goodis and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In The Burglar (1953), first published like all his later novels as a paperback original, David Goodis explores his characteristic notion of the criminal gang as surrogate family, wracked by thwarted aspirations and contradictory desires. Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, Dark Passage, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.

Download or read book Of Destiny s Daughters written by R. J. Hore and published by Champagne Book Group. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a gigantic damaged spaceship suddenly appears over Ottawa requesting assistance the world is thrown into confusion. Why are they really here? If they are having problems, what caused the damage? Then there is the Thorncroft family: Paul is depressed and gets sucked up into a spaceship. Lucile and her ex-military girlfriends are bored and looking for a fight, romance, or something to break up the monotony. Their mother, Martha, is trying to hold the family together while she deals with her husband’s PTSD and alcoholism. Everyone else is trying to discover the alien’s secrets and befriend them or destroy them and anyone who has dealings with them.

Download or read book Elena Poniatowska written by Michael Karl Schuessler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descended from the last king of Poland, born in France, educated at a British grade school in Mexico and a Catholic high school in the United States, HŽl?ne Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska AmorÑotherwise known as ElenaÑis a passionate, socially conscious writer who is widely known in Mexico and who deserves to be better known everywhere else. With his subjectÕs complete cooperation (she granted him access to fifty years of personal files), Michael Schuessler provides the first critical biography of PoniatowskaÕs life and work. She is perhaps best known outside of Mexico as the author of Massacre in Mexico (La noche de Tlatelolco) and HereÕs to You, Jesusa! (Hasta no verte, Jesœs m’o). But her body of published books is vast, beginning with the 1954 publication of Lilus Kikus, a collection of short stories. And she is still writing today. Schuessler, who befriended Poniatowska more than fifteen years ago, is a knowledgeable guide to her engrossing life and equally engaging work. As befits her, his portrait is itself a literary collage, a Òliving kaleidoscopeÓ that is constantly shifting to include a multiplicity of voicesÑthose of fellow writers, literary critics, her nanny, her mother, and the writer herselfÑeasily accessible to general readers and essential to scholars. Available in English for the first time, this insightful book includes 40 photographs and drawings and an annotated bibliography of PoniatowskaÕs worksÑthose that have already been translated into English and those awaiting translation.