The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of
America RossMacdonald edition represent for many readers the summit
of American crime writing.They remain thrilling for their searing
psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention,
and their keenlyobserved picture of the manners and morals of a
particular time and place (Southern California in the early
1960s).Each reflects Macdonald s enduring concern with the hidden
crimes and agonizing dysfunctions that haunt families fromone
generation to the next. In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, a father s
attempt to protect his daughter from the completeand utter personal
disaster of marriage to a troubled drifter sends private detective
Lew Archer on a perplexing and increasinglybloody trail that leads
him from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and finally into the maze of a
tragically splinteredidentity. In The Chill, the search for a young
bride gone missing uncovers a succession of seemingly unrelated
crimes committedover a period of decades, as Archer finds himself a
ghost from the present haunting a bloody moment in the past.
Another hunt for a missing person this time a young man escaped
from an elite reform school provides the impetusfor The Far Side of
the Dollar, which Macdonald s friend Eudora Welty considered
securely among your strongest andbest . . . a beauty that just gets
better. "
General
| Imprint: |
The Library of America
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2016 |
| Authors: |
Ross Macdonald
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| Editors: |
Tom Nolan
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| Dimensions: |
206 x 135 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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| Pages: |
784 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-59853-479-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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| LSN: |
1-59853-479-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781598534795 |
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