WOMAN IN THE DARK
de Hammett, Dashiell
- Usado
- Aceptable
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0747200866
- ISBN 13
- 9780747200864
- Librería
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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London, U.K.: Headline, 1988. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the WOMAN IN THE DARK, or with the designs of the men who want her. First published in installments in Liberty magazine [in 1933] and now rediscovered after many years, WOMAN IN THE DARK shows Dashiell Hammett at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels. one-time detective and a maser of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. Fine, first thus edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.[Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] M12
Sinopsis
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
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- Librería
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021007
- Título
- WOMAN IN THE DARK
- Autor
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Formato/Encuadernación
- No Binding
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Thus Edition 1st Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0747200866
- ISBN 13
- 9780747200864
- Editorial
- Headline
- Lugar de publicación
- London, U.K.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1988
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Product_type
- 2
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