Thieves' Market

by A. I. Bezzerides, Garrett White (Foreword by)

Overview

A dark, fast-paced proletarian novel originally published in 1949, Thieves' Market was written out of the author's youthful experiences as a trucker carrying produce to the packing houses of California's Central Valley. Immigrant Nick Garcos, like his father before him, becomes an independent trucker, soon landing in the brutal and crooked underworld of the produce markets of San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, and Los Angeles.
 
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1949.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520358171
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/29/2022
Series:	California Fiction
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

A. I. Bezzerides, the author of Long Haul, later filmed by Raoul Walsh as They Drive by Night, wrote screenplays for Warner Bros. in the 1940s as well as the film noir classics On Dangerous Ground, directed by Nicholas Ray, and Kiss Me Deadly, directed by Robert Aldrich. Thieves' Market was adapted by the author for a film, Thieves' Highway, directed by Jules Dassin. Garrett White is the translator of Blaise Cendrars's Hollywood.

What People are Saying About This

James Naremore

Bezzerides creates an exciting, suspenseful, and sometimes brutally grim picture of the truckers and wholesalers who worked in the California produce industry during the 1930s and 1940s. -- Author of More Than Night