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Nightfall
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For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In Nightfall (1947), David Goodis explores the theme of the innocent pursued, as artist Jim Vanning becomes accidentally embroiled in a violent robbery and must evade criminals and police alike. Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Dark Passage, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.
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“Vanning is carjacked near Denver by some car jackers from Seattle. He is forced to kill a guy and then forget where he left the 300K and goes back to NYC where he lives in fear of being found by the bad guys. they do find him and rough him up of course- he can't remember where he left the 300K. a good cop spies on him for weeks and becomes convinced he didn't do it. a mysterious girl appears. is she in cahoots with the bad guy or not? pretty great- good suspense with the girl and the cop is good. kinda of a fake happy ending so that part isn't so great, but still.”
About David Goodis
Among the pantheon of American crime writers—those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing—David Goodis was a unique figure. Born in Philadelphia, he brought a jazzy, expressionist style and an almost hallucinatory intensity to his spare, passionate, uncompromising novels of mean streets and doomed people. Though little acknowledged during his lifetime, he has long enjoyed an international cult following, and his works have been adapted for the screen by directors including François Truffaut, Samuel Fuller, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and Jacques Tourneur.
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