The Expendable Man (Paperback, Revised ed.)

"It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man." And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later?
Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like" In a Lonely Place" and "Ride the Pink Horse" she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With "The Expendable Man," first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.

General

Imprint:	The New York Review Of Books, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	July 2012
Authors:	Dorothy B. Hughes
Afterword by:	Walter Mosley
Dimensions:	203 x 131 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	252
Edition:	Revised ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-495-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	1-59017-495-X
Barcode:	9781590174951

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