New Hard-Boiled Writers: 1970s–1990s
University of Wisconsin Press, 2000
Paper: 978-0-87972-820-5 | Cloth: 978-0-87972-819-9
Library of Congress Classification PS374.D4P34 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.087209
Paper: 978-0-87972-820-5 | Cloth: 978-0-87972-819-9
Library of Congress Classification PS374.D4P34 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.087209
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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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