Fast One - Couverture souple

Cain, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1627550674 ISBN 13 : 9781627550673

Editeur : Black Curtain Press, 2013

Synopsis

First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, Fast One by Paul Cain explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge in American fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Cain was the pen name of George Caryl Sims (1902-1966), an American pulp writer and screenwriter whose small body of work left a lasting mark on hard-boiled crime fiction. Writing as Paul Cain, he became associated with Black Mask, the magazine that helped define the American hard-boiled tradition. His fiction is known for its violent momentum, emotional coldness, stripped-down prose, and refusal to soften the world it depicts. Cain wrote only one novel, Fast One, but its reputation has grown steadily among readers and critics of pulp crime, noir fiction, and early twentieth-century American gangster literature.Cain also worked in Hollywood under the name Peter Ruric, contributing to screenplays including the 1934 horror film The Black Cat. His fiction often follows men on the wrong side of the law rather than conventional detectives, giving his work a darker and more fatalistic edge than many crime stories of the period. Fast One, first serialized in Black Mask and then published as a novel in 1933, remains his central achievement: a cold, rapid, violent masterpiece of the ultra-hard-boiled school and a key title for readers interested in Black Mask fiction, American noir, Los Angeles crime fiction, and the development of modern hard-boiled style.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Curtain Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1627550674
• ISBN 13: 9781627550673
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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