Crime novels :  American noir of the 1930s and 40s. 

 - New York :  Library of America :  Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA,   
 - 990 pages :  illustrations ;  21 cm. 
 - The library of America ;  94 .
 - Library of America ;  94. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 983-990). 
<br/><br/> The postman always rings twice /  They shoot horses, don't they /  Thieves like us /  The big clock /  Nightmare alley /  I married a dead man /  James M. Cain --  Horace McCoy --  Edward Anderson --  Kenneth Fearing --  William Lindsay Gresham --  Cornell Woolrich. 
<br/><br/> "This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1950s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating psyche. With visionary and often subversive force they create a dark and violent mythology out of the most commonplace elements of modern life. The raw power of their vernacular style has profoundly influenced contemporary American culture and writing. Far from formulaic, they are ambitious works which bend the rules of genre fiction to their often experimental purposes"--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1883011469 9781883011468 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97002485 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Crime Novels.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories, American.<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Noir fiction, American.<br/>Literature.<br/>American fiction.<br/>Detective and mystery stories, American.<br/>Noir fiction, American.<br/>--Anthologies.--1900-1945<br/>Mystery fiction, American.<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Crime fiction.<br/>Mystery fiction.<br/>American fiction.<br/>Mystery fiction, American.<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Crime fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Detective and mystery stories, American American fiction -- 20th century Crime -- Fiction 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Mystery fiction.<br/>Detective and mystery fiction.<br/>Noir fiction.<br/>Mystery fiction.<br/>Noir fiction.<br/>Detective and mystery fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS648.D4  / C695 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.087208052 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>PS 648.D4  / C695 1997