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New Hard-Boiled Writers - 1970s-1990s (Paperback)
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New Hard-Boiled Writers - 1970s-1990s (Paperback)
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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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