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New Hard-Boiled Writers: 1970s-1990s
Contributor(s): Panek, Leroy Lad (Author)

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 ISBN: 0879728205     ISBN-13: 9780879728205
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
OUR PRICE: $16.10  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 2000
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Annotation: Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation of writers took over the hard-boiled story (created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett) and transformed it to fit the realities of their world--a universe infected by violence, greed, racism, sexism, war, and commercialism. Their protagonists, too, are far different from Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 813.087
LCCN: 00037889
Lexile Measure: 1230(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.24" W x 9.46" L (1.18 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 196
 
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Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation of writers took over the hard-boiled story (created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett) and transformed it to fit the realities of their world-a universe infected by violence, greed, racism, sexism, war, and commercialism. Their protagonists, too, are far different from Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
The author comments both on the way the hard-boiled story has changed over the past three decades and examines the work of ten significant contemporary hard-boiled writers. Chapters on Robert B. Parker, James Crumley, Loren Estleman, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Earl Emerson, Robert Crais, James Lee Burke, and Walter Mosley demonstrate how these writers have used the hard-boiled hero to make powerful statements about life in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
 
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