Four novels of the 1950s / Ross Macdonald ; Tom Nolan, editor.
2015
PS3525.I486 A6 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Four novels of the 1950s / Ross Macdonald ; Tom Nolan, editor.
Uniform Title
Novels. Selections
Spine Title
Crime novels of the 1950s
ISBN
9781598533767 (hardcover)
1598533762 (hardcover)
1598533762 (hardcover)
Published
New York : The Library Of America, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
926 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3525.I486 A6 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
"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."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 917-926).
Series
Library of America ; 264.
Includes
Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. Way some people die.
Way some people die.
Barbarous coast.
Doomsters.
Galton case.
Way some people die.
Barbarous coast.
Doomsters.
Galton case.
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Table of Contents
The way some people die
The barbarous coast
The doomsters
The Galton case.
Other writings. Letter to Alfred A. Knopf
The writer as detective hero
Preface to Archer in Hollywood
Writing The Galton case
Down these streets a mean man must go.
The barbarous coast
The doomsters
The Galton case.
Other writings. Letter to Alfred A. Knopf
The writer as detective hero
Preface to Archer in Hollywood
Writing The Galton case
Down these streets a mean man must go.