Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
Published:22nd Nov '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction
Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines.
Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight was showing around the seams of American society and visions quite in contrast to the sanctioned version drifted to the surface in books one bought off racks in drugstores and bus stations -- stark, bonelike, disturbing books.
We're pleased to make Difficult Lives available again, doubling your pleasure by pairing it with Hitching Rides, an equal volume of new essays on other crime writers including Derek Raymond, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson.
His enthusiasm is generous; his taste impeccable -- Karen Robinson * Crime Club, The Sunday Times *
Erudite and informative these essays may be, but they are also crafted with love. Love of an art form that I share. If noir is your Driver, this is for you -- Paul Burke * Nudge *
Then there's James Sallis - he's right up there, one of the best. It is quite possible that speaking of Jim Sallis in the same tone as Poe and Dostoevski is not overblowing on my part -- Harlan Ellison
ISBN: 9780857302564
Dimensions: unknown
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256 pages