Difficult Lives: Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Chester Himes |
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... noir fiction - edge literature , all of it . Like others such as David Goodis , suddenly he found it possible to sustain himself writing more or less what he wished , producing a body of work unified by its author's preoccupa- tions and ...
... noir fiction - edge literature , all of it . Like others such as David Goodis , suddenly he found it possible to sustain himself writing more or less what he wished , producing a body of work unified by its author's preoccupa- tions and ...
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... noir , particularly the spate of movies based on Jim Thompson's novels which began with AFTER DARK , MY SWEET and THE GRIFTERS , is a kind of dialectic , surfacing , it seems abruptly , in response to what is actually a decade - long ...
... noir , particularly the spate of movies based on Jim Thompson's novels which began with AFTER DARK , MY SWEET and THE GRIFTERS , is a kind of dialectic , surfacing , it seems abruptly , in response to what is actually a decade - long ...
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... noir writers , did Thompson's work endure . A handful of American writers and readers remembered that work with a mixture of fondness and awe : its starkness , its savage , unrelenting voice and emotional contortions . One of those was ...
... noir writers , did Thompson's work endure . A handful of American writers and readers remembered that work with a mixture of fondness and awe : its starkness , its savage , unrelenting voice and emotional contortions . One of those was ...
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