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Author |
: John T. Irwin |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 445 |
Release |
: 2006-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801889387 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801889383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them by : John T. Irwin
The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and ’40s. Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the “hard-boiled” detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, these new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. John T. Irwin explores how the stories of these characters grapple with ideas of American masculinity. Professional codes are pitted against personal desires, resulting in either ruinous relationships or solitary integrity. In thematic conflicts between independence and subordination, all notions of manly independence prove subordinate to the hand of fate. Tracing the stylistic development of the genre, Irwin demonstrates the particular influence of the novel of manners, especially the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also shows that as hard-boiled fiction began to appear on the screen in film noir, it took on themes of female empowerment—just as women entered the workforce in large numbers. Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century.
Author |
: John T. Irwin |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2006-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801884357 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801884351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them by : John T. Irwin
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Author |
: Vivek Shraya |
Publisher |
: arsenal pulp press |
Total Pages |
: 81 |
Release |
: 2019-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781551527512 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1551527510 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death Threat by : Vivek Shraya
In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Acclaimed artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya’s responses to them to startling life in Death Threat, a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Using satire and surrealism, Death Threat is an unflinching portrayal of violent harassment from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the target, illustrating the dangers of online accessibility, and the ease with which vitriolic hatred can be spread digitally.
Author |
: Colleen Hoover |
Publisher |
: Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2021-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538724743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 153872474X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Verity by : Colleen Hoover
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Author |
: Alice Feeney |
Publisher |
: Flatiron Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2018-03-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250144836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250144833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sometimes I Lie by : Alice Feeney
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
Author |
: Richard Schickel |
Publisher |
: Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015079263417 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Film on Paper by : Richard Schickel
Presents essay reprints from Richard Schickel's "The Los Angeles Times Book Review," intended as a review of books about the movie industry but instead comments about different groups of players within the industry.
Author |
: Drew Gilpin Faust |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2009-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375703836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375703837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Republic of Suffering by : Drew Gilpin Faust
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author |
: Holly Jackson |
Publisher |
: Delacorte Press |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2021-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593379875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 059337987X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis As Good as Dead by : Holly Jackson
THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • The final book in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again... Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . . And don't miss Holly Jackson's next thriller, Five Surive!
Author |
: Anthony Ray Hinton |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2018-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250124715 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250124719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sun Does Shine by : Anthony Ray Hinton
"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Author |
: Neil Postman |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000012455942 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Amusing Ourselves to Death by : Neil Postman
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.