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219 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590179161
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 19 January 2016
Description
During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but...
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219 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590179161
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 19 January 2016
Description
During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but...