Dark Passage: A Library of America eBook Classic

by David Goodis

Overview

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. David Goodis experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the basis for a popular movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The story of a man railroaded for his wife’s murder and forced to assume a different identity after escaping from prison becomes in Goodis’s hands a lyrical evocation of urban fear and loneliness. Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598534467
Publisher:	Library of America
Publication date:	03/29/2012
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
Sales rank:	228,693
File size:	440 KB

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

Film noir fans will immediately recognize this title as the basis for the 1947 film starring Bogart and Bacall. The plot follows protagonist Vince Parry's escape from San Quentin in order to find out who framed him for the murder of his wife. Goodis is always a fun read. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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