Dark Passage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781598538649)

Vendor: David Goodis
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Dark Passage

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Dark Passage

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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A noir masterpiece returns: framed for his wife's murder, an innocent man must assume a new identity in this thrilling crime classic

Rediscover the book that inspired the legendary Bogart and Bacall film

From undisputed master of crime writing David Goodis comes this unforgettable classic, which plunges readers into a world of pure urban dread and hallucinatory intensity. Wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, Vincent Parry breaks out of San Quentin and is forced to navigate the dangerous streets of San Francisco with a new face and no past. As he tries to evade the police, Parry finds himself trapped in a cityscape of paranoia, loneliness, and inescapable menace. Eighty years after its original publication, readers can rediscover the thriller that inspired the classic noir film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall--now reissued in a new paperback edition featuring the authoritative text from the Library of America Goodis edition.

Author: David Goodis
ISBN-10: 1598538640
ISBN-13: 9781598538649
Publisher: Library of America
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2027
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By David Goodis
By David Goodis
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David Goodis (1917-1967) was a Philadelphia-born pulp expressionist who brought jazz style and hallucinatory intensity to his spare, passionate, uncompromising novels of mean streets and doomed protagonists: an innocent man railroaded for his wife's murder (Dark Passage), a famous crooner scarred by violence and descending into dereliction (Street of No Return), a petty criminal derailed by irresistible passion (The Burglar). Long a cult figure, whose works have been adapted for the screen by directors including François Truffaut, Delmer Daves, and Samuel Fuller, Goodis is a unique figure in the pantheon of American crime writing.

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