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

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.

General

Imprint:	Bowling Green University Popular Press,US
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	LeRoy Lad Panek (Professor of English and Chair, English Department, Western Maryland College, USA)
Dimensions:	240 x 158 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	229
ISBN-13:	978-0-87972-820-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-87972-820-5
Barcode:	9780879728205

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