@article{775614,
      author = {Macdonald, Ross, and Nolan, Tom, and Macdonald, Ross,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/775614},
      title = {Four novels of the 1950s /},
      abstract = {"Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton,  George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, praised by Eudora Welty  as "a more serious and complex writer than Chandler and  Hammett ever were," Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of  Kenneth Millar) brought to the crime novel a new realism  and psychological depth and a unique gift for intricately  involving mystery narratives. For his centennial, The  Library of America inaugurates its Macdonald edition with  four classic novels from the 1950s, all featuring his  incomparable protagonist, private investigator Lew Archer.  Set against the background of a glittering yet darkly  enigmatic Southern California, Macdonald's books are both  unsurpassed entertainments and emotionally powerful  evocations of an outwardly prosperous, inwardly turbulent  America. Macdonald mastered the hard-boiled detective form  early on and brought to it a prose style of extraordinary  beauty. The four novels collected in the volume reveal him  broadening the genre into an intensely personal means of  expression, transforming the tragedies and dislocations of  his own life into haunting fiction. "My interest," he wrote  to his publisher, "is the exploration of lives."},
      recid = {775614},
      pages = {926 pages ;},
}