"Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not
to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection."--"New York
Journal of Books"
In his introduction to "The Best American Noir of the Century,"
James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the
hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short
pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance.
It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise
how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad." Offering the
best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection
ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more thorough
distillation of American noir fiction.
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined writings of the past century
to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir's
twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's "Pastorale,"
and its postwar heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan
Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary
incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce
Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, and William Gay, with many page-turners
appearing from the past decade.
"Delightfully devilish . . . A strange trek through the years that
includes stories from household names in the hard-boiled genre to
lesser-known authors who nonetheless can hold their own with the
legends."--Associated Press
James Ellroy is the author of the Underworld U.S.A.
trilogy--"American Tabloid," "The Cold Six Thousand," and "Blood's
a Rover"--and the L.A. Quartet novels, "The Black Dahlia," "The Big
Nowhere," "L.A. Confidential," and "White Jazz." His most recent
book is "The Hillicker Curse," a memoir.
Otto Penzler is the founder of the Mysterious Bookshop and
Mysterious Press, has won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards (most recently
for "The Lineup"), and is series editor of "The Best American
Mystery Stories."
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