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Four novels of the 1950s
- Title
- Four novels of the 1950s / Ross Macdonald ; Tom Nolan, editor.
- Author
- Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983
- Publication
- New York : The Library Of America, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Nolan, Tom
- Description
- 926 pages; 21 cm.
- 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."
- Series Statement
- The library of America ; 264
- Uniform Title
- Novels. Selections
- Library of America ; 264.
- Alternative Title
- Novels.
- Crime novels of the 1950s
- Way some people die.
- Barbarous coast.
- Doomsters.
- Galton case.
- Subjects
- Private investigators
- Archer, Lew (Fictitious character)
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Southern California
- Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) > Fiction
- Misdaadromans
- Private investigators > California, Southern > Fiction
- Romans (teksten)
- California, Southern > Fiction
- Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Romans (teksten)
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 917-926).
- 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.
- Call Number
- PS221
- ISBN
- 9781598533767
- 1598533762
- LCCN
- 2014946650
- 9781598533767
- OCLC
- 895301570
- Author
- Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983, author.
- Title
- Four novels of the 1950s / Ross Macdonald ; Tom Nolan, editor.
- Publisher
- New York : The Library Of America, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The library of America ; 264Library of America ; 264.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 917-926).
- Added Author
- Nolan, Tom, editor.Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. Way some people die.
- Spine Title
- Crime novels of the 1950s
- Added Title
- Way some people die.Barbarous coast.Doomsters.Galton case.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781598533767
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 264