{"product_id":"9781598531480","title":"David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1997 The Library of America's \u003ci\u003eCrime Novels: American Noir\u003c\/i\u003e gathered, in two volumes, eleven classic works of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s—among them David Goodis's moody and intensely lyrical masterpiece \u003ci\u003eDown There\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted by François Truffaut for his 1960 film \u003ci\u003eShoot the Piano Player\u003c\/i\u003e. Now, The Library of America and editor Robert Polito team up again to celebrate the full scope of Goodis's signature style with this landmark volume collecting five great novels from the height of his career. Goodis (1917-1967) was a Philadelphia- born pulp expressionist who brought a jazzy style to his spare, passionate novels of mean streets and doomed protagonists: an innocent man railroaded for his wife's murder (\u003ci\u003eDark Passage\u003c\/i\u003e); an artist whose life turns nightmarish because of a cache of stolen money (\u003ci\u003eNightfall\u003c\/i\u003e); a dockworker seeking to comprehend his sister's brutal death (\u003ci\u003eThe Moon in the Gutter\u003c\/i\u003e); a petty criminal derailed by irresistible passion (\u003ci\u003eThe Burglar\u003c\/i\u003e); and a famous crooner scarred by violence and descending into dereliction (\u003ci\u003eStreet of No Return\u003c\/i\u003e). Long a cult favorite, Goodis now takes his place alongside Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in the pantheon of classic American crime writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049050358000,"sku":"9781598531480","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598531480_p0.jpg?v=1763814145","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598531480","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}