Pulp Frictions
Роберт Беллем & Питер Чейни & Дэшил Хэммет & Стивен Кинг & Эд Макбейн & Росс Макдональд & Микки Спиллейн & Квентин Тарантино & Джим Томпсон & Элмор Леонард & Кэрролл Джон Дейли & Дэвид Гудис & Раймонд Чэндлер & Джеймс Эллрой & Джеймс Хэдли Чейз & Корнелл Вулрич & Маккинли Кантор & Samuel Fuller & William Riley Burnett & Джеймс Маллахэн Кейн
Language: English
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Published: May 15, 1996
Description:
Enter a world of seedy nightclubs, dangerous, dimly-lit street and cool, wisecracking dicks pitting themselves against armies of ruthless gangsters. This is pulp fiction, a genre spawned amid the disillusionment of post-World War I America — and now reaching new heights of popularity. Writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett turned that unique blend of rapid-fire action, violence and cynical humour into an art form that is being recreated by a fresh wave of young writers whose stories have all the drama and atmosphere of their predecessors’. This page-turning collection, brought together by a true aficionado of the hardboiled story, includes, of course, Chandler and Hammett, but also Mickey Spillane, Ross MacDonald, Ed McBain and James Hadley Chase from the vintage years and from the current generation James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino, to name just a few of the twenty great writers featured here. Even Stephen King, doyen of the world of horror, has turned his hand to pulp fiction and is represented in this book. The world of the hard-drinking, fast-action, apparently indestructible private eye, personified by Chandler’s creation, Philip Marlowe, was never more vibrant. It’s all here, and more, in a book that no fan of the genre can afford to miss.