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Series
Ripley novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
The cunning schemes of a young American ne'er-do-well, who travels to Italy on an unusual assignment.
Series
Library of America volume 95
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt,...
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