Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960
Book magazineAn illuminating collection of the famed writer's letters...A fine rendering of Hammett's life in his own words--and a remarkable slice of Americana.Kirkus ReviewsA dry fatalism in the letters sent me back to the novels and their absence of mercy. No book on Hammett has made that tone clear in terms of his life. But these letters show the old-fashioned literary gent (vaguely tickled by praise from Gide and Malraux) who still kept a thug in tow, a kind of inner Ned Beaumont, to make sure that pride or pleasure never got out of hand. David Thomson, New York Times Book Review The key revelations are personal: self-portraits of the au…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58243-210-6
- EAN: 9781582432106
- Produktnummer: 9695194
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 650 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.7 cm x D4.4 cm 907 g
- Gewicht: 907
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