New Hard-Boiled Writers 1970s-1990s |
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| Author:
| Panek, Leroy Lad |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87972-820-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Imprint: | Popular Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.